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- Pagine: 437
- Data di uscita: 05-03-2002
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For a very long time, I’ve told myself that I just wasn’t all that interested in Greek and Roman history. It’s overrated, I would tell myself. It got glorified by a bunch of snobby Renaissance poets way beyond its actual historical value. It’s boring. Being a medievalist will do things like this to Leggi tutto
This is one of the few books I've read that can truly be described as mind- and life-altering, without an ounce of hyperbole. Mr. Snell (or maybe Doctor Snell?) sets himself the nigh-on impossible task of parsing Greek philosophy and literature (to include plays and poetry) to try to delineate momen Leggi tutto
"The rise of thinking among the Greeks was nothing less than a revolution. They did not, by means of a mental equipment already at their disposal, merely map out new subjects for discussion such as the sciences and philosophy. They discovered the human mind". Ancient Greek thinking is indisputably th Leggi tutto
This is one of the first books, along with From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation , that drew me into philosophy as an undergraduate. His chapter on Homer and the emerging Greek concept of the self is superb and helped me to understand just how profound a change oc Leggi tutto
Monumental ensayo que, mediante la filología, literatura y filosofía, explica la génesis del pensamiento y civilización europeos a partir de los griegos; grandísima obra, y todo un clásico, este «El descubrimiento del espíritu» de Bruno Snell, en @Acantilado1999.
Snell argues that the literary and philosophical writings of the early Greeks peeled open the mind within men bit by bit. In the Homeric epics and tales of Hesiod, the thoughts of the various heroes arise as speech of the Olympic gods and goddesses within the heroes' minds. The poet is the instrumen Leggi tutto
It is a startling moment when one realizes that ‘consciousness’ as we understand it, is fluid and changing over human developmental time. By readings in Julian Jaynes, and other authors who speak towards the evolution of consciousness... one begins to glimpse this strange terrain, which we, ourselve Leggi tutto
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