КАТАРЗА: АРИСТОТЕЛ И ПЕТРУШЕВСКИ
Catharsis: Aristotle and Petrushevski

Summary/Abstract: This paper briefly discusses Aristotle in the context of the 2400 years since his birth, which in 2016 was celebrated with symposia and new books about Aristotle around the world. Then the significance of the Aristotle’s "Poetics" for aesthetics and literary theory is pointed out. In the second more extensive part of the paper the idea of tragic and tragedy in Aristotle is discussed, with special reference to the interpretation of Aristotle's catharsis first published in 1948 by Michael D. Petrushevski. The reception of this interpretation during the lifetime of Petrushevski, in our country and in the world, is also pointed out, and some new currents from the end of the last and the beginning of this century in the domain of the interpretation of catharsis are actualized.

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