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| Catharsis: In ancient Greek theater, catharsis referred to the emotional cleansing or purging that the audience experienced by witnessing the intense and tragic events in a play, helping them understand their own emotions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Catharsis - Dictionary of Arguments
I 136 Catharsis/Tragedy/Aristotle/Gadamer: It seems clear to me that Aristotle is thinking of the tragic melancholy that overcomes the viewer in the face of tragedy. But melancholy is a kind of relief and solution in which pain and lust are strangely mixed. Why can Aristotle call this state a purification? What is the impure that is attached to the affects or that they are, and why is it erased in the tragic shock? The passing of the lament and the shudder is a painful split. >Fear/Aristotle, >Compassion/Aristotle. There is a disagreement with what is happening, a disbelief that rebels against the horrible events. But this is precisely the effect of the tragic catastrophe, that this disagreement with what "is", is dissolving. In this respect it brings about a universal liberation of the cramped chest. One is not only freed from the spell into which the lamentable and horrible nature of this one destiny had held one spellbound, but in one which with one is free from everything that holds one in relation with what disjoints one with what "is". The tragic melancholy thus reflects a kind of affirmation, a return to oneself, and if, as is not uncommon in modern tragedy, the hero is tinged with such tragic melancholy in his own consciousness, he has a little part in such affirmation himself by accepting his fate. >Affirmation/Gadamer._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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