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In questo volume spartiacque per gli studi sulla classicità, composto nel 1949, Eric R. Dodds invita a ripercorrere l'evoluzione del pensiero ellenico in una chiave diversa da quella consolidata: un percorso in cui irrazionalità e ragione, lungi dal cedere l'una all'altra, non smettono di intersecarsi e coesistere. Dai tempi di Omero fino al II secolo a.C., Dodds mette in luce le credenze sul soprannaturale, l'importanza attribuita al sogno e all'influenza degli astri, i fenomeni psichici vicini alla trance e all'allucinazione, come l'ossessione dionisiaca e il furore profetico, la divinazione, l'orfismo e le pratiche magiche, delineando così aspetti e manifestazioni dell'irrazionalismo greco.
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- Pagine: 407
- Data di uscita: 18-03-2009
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Despite its age, this work by Dodds is still considered a seminal text for students of Greek history and classics. The usual survey-level understanding of the Greeks is that they were a culture which always put rationality on a pedestal at the expense of all else and ultimately ignored the irrationa Leggi tutto
Dodds was a classicist and member of the Society for Psychical Research who apparently got fed up enough with the hackneyed portrayal of the classical Greeks as rationalists to pen this popular study of the irrational elements of their culture and beliefs. It's an easy read and somewhat of an antido Leggi tutto
I suggest everyone should read chapter 2 on shame- versus guilt-culture, as well as the excellent concluding chapter "Fear of Freedom." In the last chapter, Dodds asks how it's possible for a civilization to walk right up to the edge of reason and then, at the last minute, retreat into magic and supe Leggi tutto
Evropljani vole u antičkoj Grčkoj da vide detinjstvo svoje kulture. Ovo detinjstvo, kao i svako drugo, idealizovano je. Staru Grčku volimo da zamišljamo kao mesto istinske demokratije, velikih mislilaca, umetnika i, ponajpre, kao kolevku evropske racionalnosti. Idealizovane predstave dugujemo uglavn Leggi tutto
I read this book four times in a row. The premise is that the advent of Socratic rationalism did not lead to an enlightened society (at least outside of an intellectual elite) in ancient Greece, but somewhat disastrously led to a popular/mainstream backlash that ushered in a new society that became
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Though this book is old (1951) and I'm using it for my thesis mostly only as historiography, I still very much enjoyed reading it. E.R. Dodds has a nice author voice, and explains his points in clear, understandable ways (most of the times, that is). The concept of this book already is interesting:
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