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  | | A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics(1st Edition) (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) by Penelope Murray, Pierre Destrée, Pierre Destrã E. Hardcover, 552 Pages, Published 2015 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-3764-8, ISBN: 1-4443-3764-5 "The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media oral, aural, visual, and literary. Investigates the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world Explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media, treating ..." |
 | | The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics(1st Edition) (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Marguerite Deslauriers, Pierre Destrée, Cambridge University Press, Colin Caborn Paperback, 446 Pages, Published 2013 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-18111-2, ISBN: 0-521-18111-9 "One of the most influential works in the history of political theory, Aristotle's Politics is a treatise in practical philosophy, intended to inform legislators and to create the conditions for virtuous and self-sufficient lives for the citizens of a state. In this Companion, distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on the work and its themes. After an opening exploration of the relation between Aristotle's ethics and his politics, ..." |
 | | The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context(1st Edition) (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) by Pierre Destrã E., Pierre Destrée, Malcolm Heath, Dana L. Munteanu Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-367-36611-7, ISBN: 0-367-36611-8 "This volume integrates aspects of the Poetics into the broader corpus of Aristotelian philosophy. It both deals with some old problems raised by the treatise, suggesting possible solutions through contextualization, and also identifies new ways in which poetic concepts could relate to Aristotelian philosophy. In the past, contextualization has most commonly been used by scholars in order to try to solve the meaning of difficult concept ..." |
 | | Socrates' Divine Sign Religion, Practice And Values in Socratic Philosophy by Nicholas D. Smith, Pierre Destrée Hardcover, 180 Pages, Published 2005 by Academic Printing & Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-920980-90-3, ISBN: 0-920980-90-2 "New York: Oxford University Press. West, T. G. 1979. Plato's Apology of Socrates. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. and G. S. West, trans. 1984. Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds. Ithaca ..." |
 | | Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy by Pierre Destrée, Franco V. Trivigno Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2019 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-046054-9, ISBN: 0-19-046054-7 "Ancient philosophers considered question about laughter, humor, and comedy to be both philosophically interesting and important. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. They were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama ..." |
 | | Plato's 'Symposium' A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides) by Pierre Destrée, Zina Giannopoulou, Cambridge University Press, Pierre Destrã E. Hardcover, 282 Pages, Published 2017 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-11005-2, ISBN: 1-107-11005-X "Plato's Symposium is an exceptionally multi-layered dialogue. At once a historical document, a philosophical drama that enacts abstract ideas in an often light-hearted way, and a literary masterpiece, it has exerted an influence that goes well beyond the confines of philosophy. The essays in this volume, by leading scholars, offer detailed analyses of all parts of the work, focusing on the central and much-debated theme of erōs or 'huma ..." |
 | | The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics(1st Edition) (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Marguerite Deslauriers, Pierre Destrée, Cambridge University Press Hardcover, 446 Pages, Published 2013 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-00468-9, ISBN: 1-107-00468-3 "One of the most influential works in the history of political theory, Aristotle's Politics is a treatise in practical philosophy, intended to inform legislators and to create the conditions for virtuous and self-sufficient lives for the citizens of a state. In this Companion, distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on the work and its themes. After an opening exploration of the relation between Aristotle's ethics and his politics, ..." |
 | | The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context by Pierre Destrée, Malcolm Heath, Dana L. Munteanu 262 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-00-005348-7, ISBN: 1-00-005348-2 "Philosophers on Education. London: Routledge, 51–65. Reeve, C.D.C. (2012) Action, Contemplation, and Happiness. An Essay on Aristotle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Reeves, C. (1952) “The Aristotleian Concept of the Tragic ..." |
 | | Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy by Pierre Destrée, Franco V. Trivigno 352 Pages, Published 2019 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-091761-6, ISBN: 0-19-091761-X "form of slavery, corrupting both the practice and the practitioner (11,58.19–60.7 Smith). Greed is a sickness more serious than madness itself: (T8) Human life is a pitiful thing: the intolerable love of money [philarguriē]17 has penetrated all of it, ..." |
 | | Plato's Symposium A Critical Guide by Pierre Destrée, Zina Giannopoulou Published 2017 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-108-17946-1, ISBN: 1-108-17946-0 "519d–521b; Tht. 172a–177c).27 I am grateful to Frisbee Sheffield, Robert Wardy and Zina Giannopoulou for helpful comments on a first draft. Naturally they should not be assumed to agree with everything I say. 1 Symp. 189c2–193d5. 2 They and their parents were alike “round”: stroggulos, 189e6; peripherēs, 190b3. For stroggulos used to indicate a “spherical” (not just horizontally “circular”) earth in Plato, cf. Phd. 97e1. Like Engli ..." |
 | | Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Ser. A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics by Penelope Murray, Pierre Destrée 564 Pages, Published 2015 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-1-119-00978-8, ISBN: 1-119-00978-2 "The best example of praise of a city is Libanios'Antiochikos (Or. 11. 196–272 [ad 356]). At the beginning of the speech, the orator claims that his city “is the most beautiful thing in the most beautiful land under heaven” (§16, cf. §193). The long, last part of the discourse is devoted to the description of the actual form of the city and its surroundings. All arguments are used in order to point out their beauty. The imperial pal ..." |
 | | The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics by Marguerite Deslauriers, Pierre Destrée 441 Pages, Published 2013 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-46982-2, ISBN: 1-107-46982-1 "... the most important testimony. Two preliminary remarks are in order before we begin our study of the Aristotelian conception of slavery itself. Both remarks are based on an article by Malcolm Schofield.2 I have said elsewhere that I find it obvious that Aristotle's position is ideological in the Marxist sense. Schofield objects that Aristotelian doctrine does not meet all of the requirements of an ideology. This, he argues, is. ..." |
 | | Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy by Pierre Destrée, Franco V. Trivigno 352 Pages, Published 2019 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-046055-6, ISBN: 0-19-046055-5 "This volume does not aim to settle these fascinating questions but more importantly to start a conversation about them, and serve as a reference point for discussions of laughter, humor, and comedy in ancient philosophy." |
 | | A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics by Pierre Destrée, Penelope Murray 552 Pages, Published 2015 by John Wiley & Sons ISBN-13: 978-1-119-00977-1, ISBN: 1-119-00977-4 "Greek speculations on the nature of artistic experience have profoundly shaped our culture, and this volume explores the many ways in which the arts were experienced and conceptualized in the ancient world." |
 | | Cambridge Critical Guides Plato's Symposium: A Critical Guide by Destrée, Pierre, Giannopoulou, Zina Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2019 by Cambridge University Press 2019-01-03, Cambridge ISBN-13: 978-1-107-52569-6, ISBN: 1-107-52569-1 |
 | | The Poetics in its Aristotelian Context(1st Edition) (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) by Destrée, Pierre, Heath, Malcolm, Munteanu, Dana L. Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2022 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-03-240036-5, ISBN: 1-03-240036-6 |
 | | The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right (Oxford Handbooks) by Jens Rydgren Hardcover, 760 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-027455-9, ISBN: 0-19-027455-7 |
 | | Ancient Perspectives on Aristotle's "De Anima"(1st Edition) (Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Series 1) by Gerd Van Riel, Editor-Pierre Destrée, Pierre Destree Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2010 by Leuven University Press ISBN-13: 978-90-5867-772-3, ISBN: 90-5867-772-9 "Aristotle's treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle's authoritative analyses of, among others, sense perception, imagination, memory, and intellect. The ongoing debates on this difficult work continue the commentary tradition that dates back to antiquity. This volume off ..." |
 | | Akrasia in Greek Philosophy(1st Edition) (Philosophia Antiqua) by Christopher Bobonich, Pierre Destrée, Professor Christopher Bobonich, Mirjam Gutschow Hardcover, 308 Pages, Published 2007 by Brill ISBN-13: 978-90-04-15670-8, ISBN: 90-04-15670-4 "Discussions on akrasia (lack of control, or weakness of will) in Greek philosophy have been particularily vivid and intense for the past two decades. Standard stories that presented Socrates as the philosopher who simply denied the phenomenon, and Plato and Aristotle as rehabilitating it straightforwardly against Socrates, have been challenged in many different ways. Building on those challenges, this collective provides new, and in so ..." |
 | | Plato and the Power of Images, by Volume Editor, Ed: Edmonds Iii, Pierre Destrée Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 2017 by Brill ISBN-13: 978-90-04-34500-3, ISBN: 90-04-34500-0 "Plato and the Power of Images addresses ways Plato has used images and the ways to understand their status as images, particularly how an image resembles what it represents and how to avoid mistaking that image for what it represents." |
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