Odysseus, Hero of Practical Intelligence

Deliberation and Signs in Homer's Odyssey

von Jeffrey Barnouw

388 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From the Stoics, there follows a psychological tradition leading, through Hobbes and Leibniz, to Peirce and Dewey. These thinkers are drawn on to show the significance of the conception of thinking first articulated in the Odyssey. Homer's work inaugurates an approach that has provoked philosophical conflict persisting into the present, and opposition to pragmatism and Pragmatism can be discerned in prominent critiques of Homer and his hero which are analyzed and countered in this study.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie
• ISBN: 9780761830269
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.10.2004
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: University Press of America