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Antyczna filozofia i poezja: zły glina, dobry glina

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Wolski P.

Forum Poetyki

2017

issue 7

98-103

The author discusses Malcolm Heath’s book Ancient Philosophical Poetics, in which Heath attempts to present ancient Greek philosophical views on poetry to both an academic audience and non-specialists. Leading with the warning that the essay is not concerned with what literary theory looked like in ancient Greece, but rather how philosophy looked at poetry, Heath reveals the views of the philosophers on truth and goodness in poetry. Though most often these views relegate poetry to a lower status than philosophy (Heath’s focus is on the philosophy of Plato and the Platonists, with some consideration given to Aristotle), Ancient Philosophical Poetics demonstrates conclusively that, for example, the famous Platonic dictum that poets should be exiled form the ideal state is really a call to read their work with greater insight. The author of this essay presents and commends Heath’s book as an example of a highly contemporary approach to ancient philosophy and poetics, and simultaneously one refreshingly free of anachronism.

Autor omawia książkę Ancient philosophical poetics Malcolma Heatha, który stara się w niej przybliżyć czytelnikom zarówno akademickim, jak i spoza specjalistycznego kręgu poglądy filozofów na poezję. Czyniąc zastrzeżenie, że nie jest to rozprawa o tym, jak wyglądała teoria literatury w czasach starożytnej Grecji, ale o tym, jak filozofia spoglądała na poezję, Heath ukazuje poglądy filozofów na prawdę i dobro w poezji. Jakkolwiek najczęściej jest to pogląd o niższości poezji wobec filozofii (angielski badacz skupia się na filozofii Platona i platoników, choć także Arystotelesa), to autor Ancient philosophical poetics udowadnia ostatecznie, że np. słynne platońskie wezwanie do wygnania poetów z państwa jest w istocie wezwaniem do wnikliwego ich czytania. Autor omówienia jego książki ukazuje w związku z tym wywód Heatha jako przykład bardzo współczesnej, a jednocześnie nieanachronizującej postawy wobec antycznej filozofii i poetyki.

The Stylistic Category of Clarity (Σαφήνεια, Explanatio, Perspicuitas, Claritas) in the Eyes of Greek and Roman Writers

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Styka J.

Classica Cracoviensia

2017

issue 20

119-139

The concept of clarity and the closely related idea of colour were of great importance not only for the formulation of classical ideas connected with the theory of beaux arts, but also for the creation of concepts related to the ancient academic and philosophical discourse, mainly via the use of light/shadow/colour metaphors to express and envisage the problems discussed. These were of special importance for what is commonly referred to as ancient literary aesthetics, which is the product of ideas originating in classical philosophical literary theory, practice and critique. It is to this very area of aesthetic and literary meanings of clarity that I would like to devote the present paper. However, the bulk of preserved testimonies, both direct (i.e. directly and normatively formulated) and indirect (i.e. resulting from the immanent poetics of the work), as well as the fact that they are multi-layered, compel me to narrow my analysis to the concept of clarity (σαφήνεια, claritas) as a stylistic category in ancient rhetoric and poetics, based exclusively on concepts expressed by classical Greek and Latin authors.

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Antyczna filozofia i poezja: zły glina, dobry glina

The Stylistic Category of Clarity (Σαφήνεια, Explanatio, Perspicuitas, Claritas) in the Eyes of Greek and Roman Writers