Socrates and Dionysus : philosophy and art in dialogue /
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| Imprint: | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. |
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| Description: | xi, 267 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9341196 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part 1. History, Philosophy, Politics and Poetry in the Ancient World
- Chapter 2. The Incomplete Whole: The Structural Integrity of Thucydides' History
- Chapter 3. Euripides' Ion: Identity, Legitimacy, and the Ties that Bind
- Chapter 4. Aristotle's Nod to Homer: A Political Science of Indebtedness
- Part 2. Art, Science, and Religious Toleration in Enlightenment Thought
- Chapter 5. Bacon's New Atlantis and the Goals of Modernity
- Chapter 6. Rousseau's 'Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar' as Democratic Narrative
- Part 3. Art and the Human Condition in 19 th and 20 th Century Philosophy
- Chapter 7. Art and the Voice of the Cosmos in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy
- Chapter 8. Nietzsche and the Socratic Art of Narrative Self-Care: An Apollonian and Dionysian Synthesis
- Chapter 9. The Role of Aesthetic Values, Art, and the Artistic Genius in Scheler's Ethical Personalism
- Chapter 10. From Explanation to Understanding (And Back Again): Paul Ricoeur on the Natural Sciences
- Part 4. Philosophy in Novel and Film
- Chapter 11. Beauvoir's Metaphysical Novel: Literature, Philosophy, and Ambiguity
- Chapter 12. Reflected Eros: Politics, Art, and the Modern Desire for Self-Completion in Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
- Chapter 13. Realism and Reasoning: Machiavelli and De Sica, A Critical Perspective
- Chapter 14. The Tragic Artist on Screen as an Aesthetic Theodicy: A Dionysian Reading of Mishima, The Doors and Black Swan
- Contributors
- Index
