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#poetics
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Reading group: Aristotle’s Poetics as a craft manual, with the Nāṭyaśāstra beside it
I'm a poet and a literature postgraduate in Kochi, new to formal philosophy. I've always read the Poetics as "Aristotle's theory of art". Recently I came across the argument that this is a mistranslation of the whole enterprise: the Greek technē covered…
Started by Kavya Menon4 replies198 views -
Why the translators skipped Greek tragedy, and what Ibn Rushd made of Aristotle’s Poetics
I guide visitors around Córdoba, and at the statue of Ibn Rushd near the old walls I often tell them about Borges's story "Averroes' Search". Borges imagines the great commentator puzzling over two words in Aristotle's Poetics, "tragedy" and "comedy", for which…
Started by Rafael Moreno Gálvez4 replies164 views