Aristotle and Tragic Temporality
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 28 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399536455
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations No illustrations 700
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Short description:
A radical new approach to Aristotle on time, which foregrounds the Poetics and Ethics
MoreLong description:
Aristotle and Tragic Temporality treats a theme that has drawn scholarly attention for millennia: Aristotle on time and our experience of it. It does so, however, in a wholly unprecedented way, grounding its interpretation in his Poetics and Ethics, rather than the natural philosophy of the Physics. Sean D. Kirkland first takes up Aristotle's discussion of our tragic temporal situatedness?our having to act, think, and live always between a determining past we can never fully master and a projected future we can never fully anticipate. It is this condition that comes powerfully to light for Aristotle on stage in the performance of a tragic drama. The familiar Aristotelian ?virtue ethics? then becomes something radically new in the transforming light of the Poetics? temporality - an outline of how humans can inhabit that irremediably tragic condition, never overcoming or suspending it, and arrive nonetheless at something like happiness and excellence.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Aristotle Texts Cited
Introduction: An Ancient Metaphysics of Non-Presence
Chapter I. Modern and Postmodern Philosophies of Time and Temporality
1. Modern Time as Either Objective or Subjective: Descartes, Newton, Kant, Husserl
2. Modern Time Imposed on the Aristotelian Text
3. Post-Modern Temporality: Husserl, Bergson, Heidegger
Chapter II. Aristotle’s Dialectic as Proto-Phenomenological Method
1. Endoxa, Phenomenality, and the Dialectical Path in the Topics
2. Aristotle’s Criticisms of ‘Dialectic’
3. Dialectic and the Natural Path in the Physics
4. Phainomena and Legomena as Starting Points for Dialectic
Chapter III. Staging Tragic Temporality in the Poetics
1. Seeing the Telos at the Moment of Genesis
2. The Birth of Tragedy
3. Tragic Theôria, Between Cognitivist and Non-Cognitivist Approaches
4. Mim?sis, Manthanein, and Human Nature
5. The Mimesis of Praxis as Complete, Whole, and of Some Magnitude
Conclusion
Chapter IV. Living with Tragic Temporality in the Ethics
1. The Rational Foundation of Morality for Kant
2. Pierre Hadot and Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life
3. Living Between the Past and Future Good
4. On the Intellectualism of Ethics in Plato’s Dialogues
5. The Temporality of Phron?sis
6. Past and Future as Sources of Ethical Judgment
Conclusion: The Phenomenology of Chronos in Physics, Book IV.10-14
Bibliography
Index
