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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: philosophical stage
    sub title: drama and dialectic in classical Athens
  name:
    name part: Billings, Joshua
    name part: 1985-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 269 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In this book, classicist Joshua Billings considers classical Greek drama as intellectual history. Developing an innovative approach to dramatic form as a mode of philosophical thought, Billings recasts early Greek intellectual history as a conversation across types of discourses and demonstrates the significance of dramatic reflections on widely-shared conceptual questions. He integrates evidence from tragedy, comedy and satyr play into the development of early Greek philosophy in order to place poetry at the center of Greek thought. He thus offers a substantially new history and map of classical intellectual culture, drama, on his view, appears as our best source for understanding the thought of the fifth century, while at the same time revealing significant tensions and anxieties in the development of philosophy. At the heart of the book is a novel approach to the philosophical qualities of drama. Though dramatists and their works have been considered philosophical in a variety of ways going back to antiquity, scholarly approaches have consistently taken "literature" and "philosophy" as defined categories, tracing more or less direct connections between one and the other. On the contrary, Billings argues that neither "literature" nor "philosophy" were available as stable categories in the fifth century. Rather he describes the way that drama treats issues that would come to be called philosophical, without relying on assumptions concerning what constitutes philosophical method or literary form. Drama develops a kind of method that allows it to pose and pursue conceptual questions in dramatic form which Billings describes as the "philosophical poetics" of drama.
  table of contents: Introduction: Tragedy in the Philosophical Age of the Greeks -- 1 Catalogs and Culture -- 2 Intrigue and Ontology -- 3 Agōn and Authority -- Conclusion: The Stages of Early Greek Thought.
  note: Joshua Billings.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-263) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Greek drama
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy in literature
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Ancient
  classification: PA3136 .B55 2021
  classification: 882/.0109384
  identifier: 9780691205182
  identifier: 0691205183
  identifier: 9780691211114
  identifier: 0691211116
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 201023
    record change date: 20211018101555.0
    record identifier: in00004445008