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28The invention of Dionysus: an essay on The birth of tragedyStanford University Press. 2000.Rather than representing a break with his earlier philosophical undertakings, The Birth of Tragedy can be seen as continuous with them and Nietzsche's later works. James Porter argues that Nietzsche's argumentative and writerly strategies resemble his earlier writings on philology in his 'staging' of meaning rather than in his advocacy of various positions. The derivation of the Dionysian from the Apollinian, and the interest in the atomistic challenges to Platonism, are anticipated in earlier w…Read more
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81.6 Nietzsche’s Highest Value and its LimitsNietzsche Studien 44 (1). 2015.Name der Zeitschrift: Nietzsche-Studien Jahrgang: 44 Heft: 1 Seiten: 67-77
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The Sublime in AntiquityCambridge University Press. 2015.Current understandings of the sublime are focused by a single word and by a single author. The sublime is not a word: it is a concept and an experience, or rather a whole range of ideas, meanings and experiences that are embedded in conceptual and experiential patterns. Once we train our sights on these patterns a radically different prospect on the sublime in antiquity comes to light, one that touches everything from its range of expressions to its dates of emergence, evolution, role in the cul…Read more
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19Review of Oleg V. Bychkov, Anne Sheppard (eds., Trs.), Greek and Roman Aesthetics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (3). 2011.
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35The Invention of Dionysus and the Platonic Midwife: Nietzsche's Birth of TragedyJournal of the History of Philosophy 33 (3): 467-497. 1995.
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Nietzsche, Homer, and the Classical TraditionIn Paul Bishop (ed.), Nietzsche and antiquity: his reaction and response to the classical tradition, Camden House. pp. 7--26. 2004.
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71Reply to ShinerBritish Journal of Aesthetics 49 (2): 171-178. 2009.Larry Shiner has risen to an impassioned defence against my criticisms of an iconic figure, claiming that I have ‘misrepresent[ed] Kristeller's central aim’ and therefore missed ‘the real shortcomings of Kristeller's essay’ and ‘obscure[d] substantive issues behind simplistic dichotomies’. These, and a series of disagreements over countless small details, take up the first part of his reply. He then proceeds to summarize his own book's achievements in correcting Kristeller's shortcomings. Shiner…Read more
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49The Origins of Aesthetic Thought in Ancient Greece: Matter, Sensation, and ExperienceCambridge University Press. 2010.This is the first modern attempt to put aesthetics back on the map in classical studies. James I. Porter traces the origins of aesthetic thought and inquiry in their broadest manifestations as they evolved from before Homer down to the fourth century and then into later antiquity, with an emphasis on Greece in its earlier phases. Greek aesthetics, he argues, originated in an attention to the senses and to matter as opposed to the formalism and idealism that were enshrined by Plato and Aristotle,…Read more
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24Past times G. cajani, D. Lanza (edd.): L'antico degli antichi . Pp. 181, ills. Rome: Palumbo, 2001. Paper, €15.49. Isbn: 88-8020-298- (review)The Classical Review 53 (02): 470-. 2003.
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33Is Art Modern? Kristeller's ‘Modern System of the Arts’ Reconsidered: ArticlesBritish Journal of Aesthetics 49 (1): 1-24. 2009.Kristeller's article ‘The Modern System of the Arts: A Study in the History of Aesthetics’ is a classic statement of the view, now widely adopted but rarely examined, that aesthetics became possible only in the eighteenth-century with the emergence of the fine arts. I wish to contest this view, for three reasons. Firstly, Kristeller's historical account can be questioned; alternative and equally plausible accounts are available. Secondly, ‘the modern system of the arts’ appears to have been neit…Read more
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17Untimely Meditations: Nietzsche's Zeitatomistik in ContextJournal of Nietzsche Studies 20 58-81. 2000.
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