Argument of the Action - Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy

This volume brings together Seth Benardete's studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle's Metaphysics. The Argument of the Action spans four decades of Seth Benardete's work, documenting its impressive range. Benardete's philosophic reading of the poets and his poetic reading of the philosophers share a common ground, guided by the key he found in the Platonic dialogue: probing the meaning of speeches embedded in deeds, he uncovers the unifying intention of the work by tracing the way it unfolds through a movement of its own. Benardete's original interpretations of the classics are the fruit of this discovery of the "argument of the action."

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• Authors: Seth Benardete, Benardete Seth
• Assisted by: Ronna Burger (Editor), Burger Ronna (Editor), Michael Davis (Editor), Burger Ronna (Introduction), Michael Davis (Introduction)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9780226826431
• ISBN: 978-0-226-82643-1
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets