Socrates and Dionysus : philosophy and art in dialogue /

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Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 267 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Art and philosophy. Art -- Philosophy. Art and philosophy. Art -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275970

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Other authors / contributors:	Ward, Ann, 1970- editor.
ISBN:	9781443865043 1443865044 1322051623 9781322051628 144384795X 9781443847957
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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 ...
Other form:	Print version: Socrates and Dionysus 144384795X

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