Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy, Poetry, and HistoryYale University Press, 30 במרץ 1998 - 352 עמודים Herman Sinaiko is renowned for his gifts as a guide to exploring and appreciating the humanities. This book brings to general readers Sinaiko’s thoughts on, and invitations to read or reread, a wide selection of major literary and philosophical works—from ancient Greek to Chinese to modern. Taking a conversational approach, he deals with the perennial questions that thinking people have always raised, and investigates how works of great art may provide answers to these questions. Sinaiko reestablishes the notion that there is a canon of great works from the great traditions of the world and argues for the existence of permanent standards of excellence. He rejects most contemporary critical views of classical literature and philosophy, including those of "experts" who seek to monopolize access to great works, academics whose extreme emphasis on historical context disallows any current relevance, and theorists whose lenses distort with personal bias rather than sharpening focus on the works they discuss. Sinaiko reclaims the canon for all of us, opening up discussion on texts ranging from Plato to Tolstoy, Confucius to Mary Shelley, and encouraging each reader to listen and respond to the rich diversity of powerful views on the human condition that such great works offer. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 39
עמוד viii
... ignorant . Plato , in his Dialogues , depicts a variety of situations in which Socrates leads interlocutors to acknowledge their igno- rance . In the Republic , Socrates badgers Thrasymachus into retracting his claim that justice is the ...
... ignorant . Plato , in his Dialogues , depicts a variety of situations in which Socrates leads interlocutors to acknowledge their igno- rance . In the Republic , Socrates badgers Thrasymachus into retracting his claim that justice is the ...
עמוד 9
... ignorant of ourselves . It is this profound igno- rance of ourselves that was Socrates ' great discovery . When the god Apollo said " Know thyself " to those humans who came to ask questions of the oracle at Delphi , he originally meant ...
... ignorant of ourselves . It is this profound igno- rance of ourselves that was Socrates ' great discovery . When the god Apollo said " Know thyself " to those humans who came to ask questions of the oracle at Delphi , he originally meant ...
עמוד 11
... ignorance of all of us , his genuine equals in the search for self - knowledge . This does not mean that Socrates treats them with kid gloves . The gravity of their common enterprise requires that the truth , the knowledge they are all ...
... ignorance of all of us , his genuine equals in the search for self - knowledge . This does not mean that Socrates treats them with kid gloves . The gravity of their common enterprise requires that the truth , the knowledge they are all ...
עמוד 12
... ignorance are the literal truth . But if his interlocutors don't get answers , what do they gain from talking with him ? As interlocutors come to see that Socrates , for all his irony , always means what he says , they come to see that ...
... ignorance are the literal truth . But if his interlocutors don't get answers , what do they gain from talking with him ? As interlocutors come to see that Socrates , for all his irony , always means what he says , they come to see that ...
עמוד 13
... ignorant we are ; we do not even know that we are ignorant . We may not be able to overcome our ignorance of ourselves , but we can over- come our ignorance of our ignorance . That is , we can come to understand that we do not know most ...
... ignorant we are ; we do not even know that we are ignorant . We may not be able to overcome our ignorance of ourselves , but we can over- come our ignorance of our ignorance . That is , we can come to understand that we do not know most ...
תוכן
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History Poetry and Philosophy in Tolstoys War and Peace | 66 |
Tolstoys Anna Karenina | 82 |
Theme Structure and Meaning in Herodotus History | 95 |
Art and the Comparison of Cultures | 178 |
Tragedy in Poetry and in Life | 199 |
How Is the Canon Determined? | 213 |
Who Will Teach the Teachers? | 227 |
The Structure of Teaching | 241 |
Structure and Argument in Republic | 255 |
This | 258 |
The Divided Line | 277 |
Analyzing a Lyric Poem | 111 |
Art and the Artist | 126 |
Reflections on the Monster | 142 |
Confucius Claim to Philosophical Greatness | 154 |
Socrates Critique of Poetry in Republic | 300 |
The Limitations on Human Wisdom | 323 |
References 337 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy, Poetry, and History <span dir=ltr>Herman L. Sinaiko</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 1998 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 113 - Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
עמוד 132 - The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea - something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to.
עמוד 143 - I beheld the wretch— the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks.
עמוד 111 - And thinking of that fit of grief or rage I look upon one child or t'other there And wonder if she stood so at that age — For even daughters of the swan can share Something of every paddler's heritage...
עמוד 143 - Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bedchamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
עמוד 111 - I WALK through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books and histories, To cut and sew, be neat in everything In the best modern way - the children's eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man.
עמוד 112 - Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things; Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings; World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras Fingered upon a fiddle-stick or strings What a star sang and careless Muses heard: Old clothes upon old sticks to scare a bird.
עמוד 130 - Let the fool gape and shudder - the man knows, and can look on without a wink. But he must at least be as much of a man as these on the shore. He must meet that truth with his own true stuff - with his own inborn strength. Principles? Principles won't do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags - rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.
עמוד 127 - It was in 1868, when nine years old or thereabouts, that while looking at a map of Africa of the time and putting my finger on the blank space then representing the unsolved mystery of that continent, I said to myself with absolute assurance and an amazing audacity which are no longer in my character now: "When I grow up I shall go there.
עמוד 131 - The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.