Odysseus, hero of practical intelligence : deliberation and signs in Homer's Odyssey / Jeffrey Barnouw.

• 1. In medias res : two critical passages -- 2. Wily yet single-minded -- 3. Recklessness vs. consideration -- 4. Metis as thinking ahead and then back -- 5. Noos as purpose in Odysseus and Zeus -- 6. Curiosity, heroism, and contentment -- 7. Daring and enduring (taking it) : tlao, tolmao -- 8. Visceral thinking : the dynamics of thumos, phrenes et al -- 9. Deliberation as a tumult of impulse : mermerizo, hormaino -- 1. Plato and Chrysippus claim Homer -- 2. Chrysippus's conception of human motivation -- 3. Discourse and division within the Homeric self -- 4. 'Mind'less pragmatic Odysseus : Snell -- 5. German pragmatisms : Leibniz and Kant -- 6. German pragmatisms : Schiller and Schopenhauer -- 7. Allegories of ideologies -- 8. Homeric values, shame and the assembly -- 9. Homeric clarity and psychological depth -- 1. Reconnaissance and recognition -- 2. Homer's 'sema' and the Aristotelian and stoic 'semeion' -- 3. More shifts in the foundation of signs -- 4. Signs in Hobbes's 'discursion' and 'prudence' -- 5. The scar as sign : remembering as discursion -- 6. Like-minded Penelope recognizes her husband -- App. Writing and oral tradition interact in Homer.

Ämnesord

Pragmatism i litteraturen  (sao)

Pragmatism in literature  (LCSH)

Personnamn

Odysseus (mytisk gestalt)

Namn/titel

Homeros, 700-talet f.Kr.: Odysséen 

Klassifikation

PA4167 (LCC)

880.9 (DDC)

Goaz Homeros (kssb/7)