Classes taught by Bruce King & Laura Slatkin in NYC, New York

Instructor: Bruce King & Laura Slatkin

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Aristotle and the Poets: Truth, Fiction and Tragedy

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 247 West 37th St, New York, NY

Aristotle’s Poetics offers an account of imitative art and its pleasures that stands at the origins of Western aesthetic theory. In response to Plato’s critique of poetry as twice-removed from reality, Aristotle defends—and theorizes—imitation as an essential component of human education and of the “discovery of form in things.” Fiction is false in its particulars, but somehow true in its universality. What does drama teach us that history...

All levels 21 and older

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Euripides: the Varieties of Tragedy

Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

To Aristotle, Euripides was “the most tragic of poets.” To his contemporary Aristophanes, he was a “morality-destroying quibbler and quarreler.” To Nietzsche, Euripides was, along with Socrates, the co-destroyer of tragedy. Behind these critical evaluations stands an extraordinarily variegated body of work: tragedies of intense psychological focus, of political engagement and despair, of romantic intrigue and...

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