Essays on Ancient Symbolism and Mythology
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Essays on Ancient Symbolism and Mythology
29.99 €
This edition includes one of the most important works by Alexei Fyodorovich Losev, Sketches of Ancient Symbolism and Mythology (1930). In this fundamental work, the author, using a wide range of factual material to study ancient thought and culture, as well as the history of the perception of Antiquity by European culture, develops his original concept of Platonism. After reviewing the most influential theories of the symbolic developed by Western thinkers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Losev identifies as one of the most characteristic features of ancient culture the intuitions of corporeality and plastic and visual expressiveness, aimed at synthesizing the infinite and the finite in a concrete, often mystically meaningful form. The book pays considerable attention to the mythological and symbolic aspects of early Greek philosophical thought, and undertakes a systematic study of Plato's doctrine of ideas. Losev connects the concept of idea as the ultimate expressive cognizable form of things with the notions of plastic clarity that existed in ancient culture. A separate essay is devoted to Aristotle's worldview. In order to give a complete picture of the philosopher's worldview, Losev undertakes a study of Aristotelian aesthetics, poetics and pedagogy and finds in Aristotle's philosophy features common, in his opinion, to the entire ancient culture. Aristotle's worldview in "Essays..." is treated as a detailed doctrine of fate as a principle of existence of concrete things in the world. The book will be useful for philosophers, culturologists, religious scholars and all those interested in the culture of Antiquity and Russian philosophy.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Philosophical Technologies: Russian Philosophy