Grethlein Jonas (Ruprecht - Karls - Universitat Heidelberg Germany) - The Ancient Aesthetics Of Deception The Ethics Of Enchantment From Gorgias To Heliodorus - Hardcover Inventions & Inventors Barcode: 9780593713273

Barcode: 9780593713273

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Focusing on the epistemological political and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes John Locke David Hume and Adam Smith Nacol explains that in seventeenth - and eighteenth - century Britain political

Author(s): Weinberger David

Grethlein Jonas (Ruprecht - Karls - Universitat Heidelberg Germany) - The Ancient Aesthetics Of Deception The Ethics Of Enchantment From Gorgias To Heliodorus - Hardcover Inventions & Inventors Barcode: 9780593713273Binding: Hardcover Description: The concept of mimesis has dominated reflection on the nature and role in Greek literature of representation. Jonas Grethlein in his ambitious new book takes this reflection a step further. He argues that beyond mimesis there was an important but unacknowledged strand of reflection focused instead on the nuanced idea of apat (often translated into English as 'deceit') oscillating between notions of 'deception and