Aristotle's Poetics is read in the context of his understanding of poetry as a natural human behaviour and an intrinsically valuable component of a good human life. Two chapters trace the development ...

This step is necessary for getting a clear contemporary concept of narrative in political life. Aristotle’s Poetics helps us understand the role that catharsis and emplotment plays in contemporary ...

Many of the sayings we use daily were first coined by Aristotle (384-BC – 322 BC). His studies in living the Good Life (nothing to do with Felicity Kendall looking seductive in dungarees and ...

In recent news cycles, there has been a persistent and growing narrative that Trump's appearances are undisciplined , ...

Author Brandon Keim makes a cogent case for reevaluating how we understand - and treat - the creatures around us, even those ...

Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and ...

It is a philosophical debate that has raged for millennia. From Aristotle’s belief in becoming, we can understand how he derived his belief in our essential nature. Our essence is an evolving ...

Goldstein opts for the Wikipedia overview. This is a mistake that Aristotle cautioned against in “Poetics.” A strong plot, he ...

The great Greek philosopher, Aristotle, was one of the first. He thought that slavery was a natural thing and that human beings came in two types - slaves and non-slaves. For that some should rule ...

It explores central themes from Aristotle's corpus, including logic, rhetoric and poetics, physics and meteorology, psychology, metaphysics, ethics and politics, and examines how these themes are ...

"Imaginary Books," an upcoming show at New York's Grolier Club takes a counterfactual tour around the literary universe.

As a classics scholar, my research has cracked the code of Aristotle’s seminal narrative theory of muthos in his Poetics, written in the 4th century BC. Muthos is a timeless theoretical ...