This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure
of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic
Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical
problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry
satisfies our 'hunger for tears' hearkens back to archaic
conceptions of both poetry and mourning that suggest a common
source of pleasure in the human appetite for heightened forms of
emotional distress. By unearthing a psychosomatic model of
aesthetic engagement implicit in archaic poetry and philosophically
elaborated by Plato, this volume not only sheds new light on the
Republic's notorious indictment of poetry, but also identifies
rationally and ethically disinterested sources of value in our
pursuit of aesthetic states. In doing so the book resolves an
intractable paradox in aesthetic theory and human psychology: the
appeal of painful emotions.
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