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020			_a9781107184442 (hardback)
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100	1		_aLiebert, Rana Saadi _eAuteur _4070 _9424474
245	1	0	_aTragic pleasure from Homer to Plato / _cRana Saadi Liebert, Bard College, New York
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2017
300			_a(218 p.)
520			_a"This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry satisfies our 'hunger for tears' hearkens back to archaic conceptions of both poetry and mourning that suggest a common source of pleasure in the human appetite for heightened forms of emotional distress. By unearthing a psychosomatic model of aesthetic engagement implicit in archaic poetry and philosophically elaborated by Plato, this volume not only sheds new light on the Republic's notorious indictment of poetry, but also identifies rationally and ethically disinterested sources of value in our pursuit of aesthetic states. In doing so the book resolves an intractable paradox in aesthetic theory and human psychology: the appeal of painful emotions"-- _cProvided by publisher
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