Michael Tierno's "Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters" delivers those rare goods, rising above the usual how-to level by plumbing the philosopher's masterwork for truths relevant to today's ...

The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 136, No. 4 (WINTER 2015), pp. 577-606 (30 pages) There are two related problems in the Poetics: Aristotle's contradictory statements about size, and Aristotle's ...

Hallucinations, convulsions, delusions, and other symptoms shed light on the brain’s obscure machinery, according to this luminous debut from neurologist Anand. Revisiting cases Continue reading » ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy and ...

The pleasure attending dramatic catharsis, according to Aristotle, is a pleasure the audience feels when the tension that has been developing throughout the action of the play is released. Catharsis ...

In his powerful book The Burnout Society, South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that in modern society, individuals have an imperative to achieve. Han calls this an "achievement society" in ...