The Discovery Of The Mind In Greek Philosophy And Literature by Bruno Snell
A compact cultural and philological study arguing that the notion of an inner, introspective mind was not present in early epic poetry but emerged in ancient Greece through changes in language, literature and thought; by close readings of Homeric epic, lyric and tragic poetry and of early philosophical texts, the work traces how new grammatical and lexical resources (pronouns, verbs of thinking and feeling, narrative techniques) made self-awareness and reflective consciousness intelligible, culminating in the explicit philosophical accounts of Plato and Aristotle and framing the discovery of the mind as a gradual linguistic and cultural achievement.
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- 1946
- Nationality
- German
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- German
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- Die Entdeckung des Geistes
- The Discovery of the Mind
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