Dialogues
Author : Lucian (of Samosata.)
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Lucian (of Samosata.)
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 1997-11-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780691015972
Includes afterword (p. 349-393) by the author: Dionysus and the Bacchae in the light of Recent Scholarship.
Author : Domenico Losurdo
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 38,93 MB
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004270957
Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his ‘superman’ the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a hermeneutics of innocence founded ultimately in allegory. In a work that constitutes the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo instead pursues a less reductive strategy. Taking literally the ruthless implications of Nietzsche's anti-democratic thinking – his celebration of slavery, of war and colonial expansion, and eugenics – he nevertheless refuses to treat these from the perspective of the mid-twentieth century. In doing so, he restores Nietzsche’s works to their complex nineteenth-century context, and presents a more compelling account of the importance of Nietzsche as philosopher than can be expected from his many contemporary apologists. Translated by Gregor Benton. With an Introduction by Harrison Fluss. Originally published in Italian by Bollati Boringhieri Editore as Domenico Losurdo, Nietzsche, il ribelle aristocratico: Biografia intellettuale e bilancio critico, Turin, 2002.
Author : Dirk Dunbar
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1478755059
In Renewing the Balance, Dirk Dunbar shows how the balance worshipped in ancient Earth wisdom traditions is being integrated into Western culture’s dominantly masculine, rational value system. Filled with hope, revelations regarding cultural evolution, and scholarship of the highest order, Dunbar’s book passionately challenges all of us to recover the archaic reverence for the natural world, to reconsider the limits of growth, progress, and mechanistic thinking, and to join in the newly reclaimed celebration of life that fosters peace and the potential for a sustainable future. Dirk Dunbar’s Renewing the Balance is a crucial and comprehensive account of how traditional cultures maintained a healthy balance that preserved our natural world and how our modern technocratic, economic ideology has produced a culture that is dangerously out of balance. It is at once a diagnosis of our dis-ease and a prescription for healing our collective psyche, polis, and environment. A truly fascinating philosophical adventure. ~Sam Keen Author of 12 books, including The Passionate Life and Hymns to an Unknown God Renewing the Balance brings depth and breadth to our efforts to understand how Western culture evolved as it did and to appreciate the many streams that now flow into our efforts to manifest ecological wisdom in a hypermodern world. ~Charlene Spretnak Author of 9 books, including States of Grace and The Resurgence of the Real
Author : Andrea Nightingale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1108837301
Challenges the idea that Plato is a secular thinker, exploring the interaction of philosophy and Greek religion in the dialogues.
Author : Thomas Taylor
Publisher : New York : J.W. Bouton
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Religion
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Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004443258
Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III, edited by Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska, explores both old and new questions about the poet and his works ‒ the grand mythological epic Dionysiaca and the hexameter Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel.
Author : Eric A. HAVELOCK
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674038436
Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought. The reason for the dominance of this tradition was technological. In a nonliterate culture, stored experience necessary to cultural stability had to be preserved as poetry in order to be memorized. Plato attacks poets, particularly Homer, as the sole source of Greek moral and technical instruction-Mr. Havelock shows how the Iliad acted as an oral encyclopedia. Under the label of mimesis, Plato condemns the poetic process of emotional identification and the necessity of presenting content as a series of specific images in a continued narrative. The second part of the book discusses the Platonic Forms as an aspect of an increasingly rational culture. Literate Greece demanded, instead of poetic discourse, a vocabulary and a sentence structure both abstract and explicit in which experience could be described normatively and analytically: in short a language of ethics and science.
Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804153868
A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.