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Benardete’s works invite a deeper engagement with the foundations of Western intellectual tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aristotle-on-poetics-by-michael-davis-9781587310263","title":"Aristotle On Poetics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAristotle's On Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it anew with a view to rendering Aristotle's text into English as precisely as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA literal translation has long been needed, for in order to excavate the argument of \u003cem\u003eOn Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e, one has to attend not simply to what is said on the surface but also to the various puzzles, questions, and peculiarities that emerge only on the level of how Aristotle says what he says. This approach leads one to revise and deepen one's initial understanding of the intent of the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs \u003cem\u003eOn Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e is about how tragedy ought to be composed, it should not be surprising that it turns out to be a rather artful piece of literature in its own right. Benardete and Davis supplement their edition of \u003cem\u003eOn Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e with extensive notes and appendices. They explain nuances of the original that elude translation, and they provide translations of passages found elsewhere in Aristotle's works as well as in those of other ancient authors. These supplements prove useful in thinking through the argument of \u003cem\u003eOn Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e both in terms of its treatment of tragedy and in terms of its broader concerns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy following the connections Aristotle plots between \u003cem\u003eOn Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e and his other works, readers will be in a position to appreciate the centrality of this little book for his thought on the whole. In an introduction that sketches the overall interpretation of \u003cem\u003eOn Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e presented in his work, \u003cem\u003eThe Poetry of Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e (St. Augustine's Press, 1999), Davis argues that, while \u003cem\u003eOn Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e is certainly about tragedy, it has a further concern extending beyond poetry to the very structure of the human soul in its relation to what is. 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Benardete’s philosophic reading of the poets and his poetic reading of the philosophers share a common ground, guided by the key he found in the Platonic dialogue: probing the meaning of speeches embedded in deeds, he uncovers the unifying intention of the work by tracing the way it unfolds through a movement of its own. 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