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Item Details
| Title:
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TURNING
FROM PERSUASION TO PHILOSOPHY |
| By: |
Michael Naas |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0391038214 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780391038219 |
| Publisher: |
HUMANITIES PRESS INTERNATIONAL INC.,U.S. |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1993 |
| Series: |
Philosophy and Literary Theory |
| Pages: |
344 |
| Synopsis: |
This study analyzes the representation of persuasion in pre-Platonic Greek texts, particularly Homer's "Iliad". It treats the notion of persuasion in Homer in a detailed and systematic way, including drawing on specific features of contemporary philosophy in order to interpret ancient Greek texts. Michael Naas demonstrates how essential persuasion was to all relations between mortals and gods in early Greek texts. Although subsequently reduced to a mere psychological phenomenon in Greek philosophy, and restricted to the study and practice of rhetoric, persuasion was, for the early Greeks, a pre-ontological force associated with a turning toward presence. Indeed, this work may be thought of as contributing to the so-called critique of presence, since it tries to articulate a notion - perusasion, turning - that cannot be squarely located within metaphysics. |
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notes, bibliography, indexes |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Humanities Press International Inc |
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Non-returnable |
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