Poetics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle Kenny Anthony (2013-01-20) Paperback

by Anthony Kenny

Paperback

About the author

Sir Anthony Kenny is an English philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and the philosophy of religion.

Reviews

[Leona · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this translation of 'Poetics' - it was super easy to follow, and translation choices were well explained. I was particularly focused on the chapter on tragedy, which I thought was really illuminating on structural devices and uses of plot. Super cool!!

'Drama allows us to experience the most negative emotions without the pain that accompanies them in real life...it is the pleasure we take in feeling these normally depressing emotions that is the pleasure particular to tragedy.'

[Nicholas Clem · Rating 1 out of 5]

excruciating read! I dislike the translator, even though I sympathize with the difficulty of trying to translate works dating back to BC.

Aristotle LOVES Homer and Sophocles.

I decided to revisit this as I had "read" it once before for a college class. There's nothing much to note about the actual text itself. Most of it isn't practical to the common person, lots of discussion of literary genres of epic and tragedy, their backgrounds, differences (things like what meter they're written in, their scale, etc.).

If you have a deathly curiosity about tragedies, epics, and brief lessons on linguistics... knock yourself out. I did not, and still do not.

[nahla]

I am not a philosopher and I never will be. When someone once broached the conversation topic of determinism vs. free will to me, my response was a simple: 'Who cares? You won't know the answer anyway, so it can't impact your life.' And I think that encapsulates perfectly my unwillingness to indulge in philosphy's contemplative nature. At least I can walk around now and tell people I have read Aristotle, which is more than Travis Kelce can say.

[Required reading for university.]

[Lucky Fisheye]

- Poetics

[Siân Marie · Rating 4 out of 5]

insightful but you need to concentrate to fully understand it