The Greeks and the IrrationalUniversity of California Press, 15 בנוב׳ 2023 - 336 עמודים In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, "Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct observation?" Praised by reviewers as "an event in modern Greek scholarship" and "a book which it would be difficult to over-praise," The Greeks and the Irrational was Volume 25 of the Sather Classical Lectures series. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2004. In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E. R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, "Why should we attribute t |
תוכן
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From ShameCulture to GuiltCulture | 28 |
The Blessings of Madness | 64 |
DreamPattern and CulturePattern | 102 |
The Greek Shamans and the Origin of Puritanism | 135 |
Rationalism and Reaction in the Classical Age | 179 |
Plato the Irrational Soul and the Inherited Conglomerate | 207 |
The Fear of Freedom | 236 |
Maenadism | 270 |
Theurgy | 283 |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Aesch Aeschylus ancient Apol Apollo appears apud Archaic Age Aristides Aristotle Asclepius Athens attributed belief Bidez Boyancé called Chaldaean chap Corybantic cult culture daemon dancing Diels Diog Dionysiac Dionysus divine doctrine dreams Empedocles Epimenides Euripides evidence Festugière fifth century gods Greece Greek Harv Hellenistic Heraclitus Herodotus Hesiod Hipp Homer human Iamblichus ibid idea Iliad irrational later Laws Linforth madness maenads magical mind moral myst natural Nilsson occult oracles Orphic passage perhaps Phaedo Pindar Plato Plut Plutarch poet possession primitive Proclus Psellus psyche psychic psychological Pyth Pythagoras Pythagorean Pythia quoted rational recognise religion religious rites ritual Rohde says seems sense shaman shamanistic Socrates Soph soul Suidas supernatural Theol theurgy things thought tion tradition trance Wilamowitz words Xenophanes Zalmoxis Zeus γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ οἱ περὶ τὰ τε καὶ τὴν τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν ὡς
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 3 - not I was the cause of this act, but Zeus and my portion and the Erinys who walks in darkness: they it was who in the assembly put wild ate in my understanding, on that day when I arbitrarily took Achilles
עמוד 1 - Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.