{"title":"Victoria Wohl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVictoria Wohl\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intricate intersections of ancient thought and artistic expression, offering profound insights into the ways form and philosophy shape understanding. Her works delve deeply into early Greek philosophy and literature, inviting readers to reconsider classical texts through the lens of political and poetic frameworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection is ideal for those fascinated by the nuances of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e as well as the philosophical currents that underpin human creativity and cognition. Wohl’s writing challenges and enriches the study of both philosophy and the arts, illuminating the enduring dialogue between prose, poetry, and political form.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-being-and-the-prose-of-the-world-in-early-greek-philosophy-by-victoria-wohl-9780520413320","title":"The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.luminosoa.org\"\u003ewww.luminosoa.org\u003c\/a\u003e to learn more.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Presocratic philosophers, writing in Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, invented new ways of thinking about human life, the natural world, and structures of reality. They also developed novel ways of using language to express their thought. In \u003cem\u003eThe Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, Victoria Wohl examines these innovations and the productive relation between them in the work of five figures: Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBringing these thinkers into conversation with modern critical theorists on questions of shared concern, Wohl argues for the poetic sophistication of their work and the inextricable convergence of their aesthetic form and philosophical content. In addition to offering original readings of these fascinating figures and robust strategies for interpreting their fragmentary, rebarbative texts, this book invites readers to communicate across entrenched divisions between literature and philosophy and between antiquity and modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46795483119852,"sku":"9780520413320","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7353533482373.jpg?v=1757032884"},{"product_id":"euripides-and-the-politics-of-form-by-victoria-wohl-9780691202372","title":"Euripides and the Politics of Form","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProviding a new approach to the aesthetics and politics of Greek tragedy, Victoria Wohl argues that the poetic form of Euripides' drama constitutes a mode of political thought. Through readings of select plays, she explores the politics of Euripides' radical aesthetics, showing how formal innovation generates political passions with real-world consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEuripides' plays have long perplexed readers. With their disjointed plots, comic touches, and frequent happy endings, they seem to stretch the boundaries of tragedy. But the plays' formal traits—from their exorbitantly beautiful lyrics to their arousal and resolution of suspense—shape the audience's political sensibilities and ideological attachments. Engendering civic passions, the plays enact as well as express political ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWohl draws out the political implications of Euripidean aesthetics by exploring such topics as narrative and ideological desire, the politics of pathos, realism and its utopian possibilities, the logic of political allegory, and tragedy's relation to its historical moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBreaking through the impasse between formalist and historicist interpretations of Greek tragedy, \u003cem\u003eEuripides and the Politics of Form\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that aesthetic structure and political meaning are mutually implicated—and that to read the plays poetically is necessarily to read them politically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596347588844,"sku":"9780691202372","price":139.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4d8c715ee63a6f3320d7ce03caeecf9f.jpg?v=1777929902"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/victoria-wohl.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}