The aesthetics of mimesis : ancient texts and modern problems

The aesthetics of mimesis : ancient texts and modern problems / Stephen Halliwell.

Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philos...

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Main Author: Halliwell, Stephen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Aristoteles > v384-v322
Plato > v427-v347
Plotinus > 205-270
Aesthetics > History.
Mimesis in art.
mimesis.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Aesthetics
Mimesis in art
Mimesis
Antike
Ästhetik
Mimesis.
Griechenland > Altertum
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : mimesis and the history of aesthetics
  • Representation and reality : Plato and mimesis
  • Romantic Puritanism : Plato and the psychology of mimesis
  • Mimesis and the best life : Plato's repudiation of the tragic
  • More than meets the eye : looking into Plato's mirror
  • Inside and outside the work of art : Aristotelian mimesis reevaluated
  • The rewards of mimesis : pleasure, understanding, and emotion in Aristotle's Aesthetics
  • Tragic pity : Aristotle and beyond
  • Music and the limits of mimesis : Aristotle versus Philodemus
  • Truth or delusion? The mimeticist legacy in Hellenistic philosophy
  • Images of life : mimesis and literary criticism after Aristotle
  • Renewal and transformation : Neoplatonism and mimesis
  • An inheritance contested : Renaissance to modernity.

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