Plato on Comedy and Tragedy: The Role of Drama in the Pursuit of Happiness - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009360135ISBN-10:1009360132UPC:9781009360135Book Category:Philosophy, DramaBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCXPSZ7MCQ
Plato on Comedy and Tragedy: The Role of Drama in the Pursuit of Happiness
For Plato, tragedy and comedy are meaningful generic forms with proto-philosophical content concerning the moral character of their protagonists. He operates with a distinction between actual drama, the comedy and tragedy of the fourth and fifth centuries BCE, and ideal drama, the norm for what comedy and tragedy ought to be like. In this book Franco Trivigno reconstructs, on Plato's behalf, an...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009360135ISBN-10:1009360132UPC:9781009360135Book Category:Philosophy, DramaBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Ancient & ClassicalBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCXPSZ7MCQ
Trivigno, Franco V.: - Franco V. Trivigno is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Plato's Ion: Poetry, Expertise and Inspiration (Cambridge, 2020), and the co-editor of The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness (2014), and Laughter, Humor and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy (2019).
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