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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814538703321

Titolo

Socrates and Dionysus : philosophy and art in dialogue / / edited by Ann Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-6504-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

180

Soggetti

Art - Philosophy

Art and philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; PART ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART TWO; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART THREE; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART FOUR; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Socrates and Dionysus engages and seeks to redraw the boundaries between philosophy and poetry, science and art. Friedrich Nietzsche argues in his work The Birth of Tragedy that science conquers art, especially the tragic art of the Dionysian poet of ancient Greece. Appealing to the natural, primeval self that is suppressed but not extinguished by the knowledge of culture, Dionysian tragedy establishes contact with our bodies and their deepest longings. Science and philosophy, associated with...