Ontology and the Art of Tragedy: An Approach to Aristotle's Poetics (S U N Y Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy)

By Martha Husain

Book Overview

Argues for a reading of the Poetics in light of the Metaphysics.

Ontology and the Art of Tragedy is a sustained reflection on the principles and criteria from which to guide one's approach to Aristotle's Poetics. Its scope is twofold: historical and systematic. In its historical aspect it develops an approach to Aristotle's Poetics, which brings his distinctive philosophy of being to bear on the reception of this text. In its systematic aspect it relates Aristotle's theory of art to the perennial desiderata of any theory of art, and particularly to Kandinsky's.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791451437
• ISBN13: 9780791451434
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher