"There is no room for katharsis in the definition of tragedy as it
occurs in chapter 6 of Aristotle's Poetics. The passage is corrupt.
At least three scholars (Petrusevski, Freire, and Scott) have shown
that intervention in the text is justified and necessary... I take
it for granted here that katharsis in line 1449b28 cannot remain."
-CLAUDIO WILLIAM VELOSO, "Aristotle's Poetics without Katharsis,
Fear, or Pity," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2007. Veloso
is the author also of Pourquoi la Po�tique d'Aristote? DIAGOGE [Why
the Poetics of Aristotle? Intellectual Enjoyment] (August 2018,
Vrin), with a Preface by Marwan Rashed.
"Scott is the first to thoroughly counter more than two thousand
years of Aristotelian hermeneutics. He does this by re-analysing,
step by step and comprehensively, a vast literature and gallery of
authors hitherto considered indisputable points of reference,
thus...affirming the entirely new interpretation (p. 29)...
Although Scott's reading is supported by a growing number of
affirmations worldwide, most of the specialists, with Stephen
Halliwell in the lead, insist on repeating the old, misleading
interpretations (p. 33)." -ANTONIO ATTISANI, "Rifare il principio:
Il sentiero neodrammatico," in Il Pensiero: rivista di filosofia,
Volume LVIII, 2019/1. 17-41; transl. George Ulrich.
"Scott's book is, I think, more important than Else's (whose
problems he [Scott] answers much more neatly), which was perhaps
the magnum opus of the last century... Everyone claiming to be
interested in what Aristotle was really up to in that book [the
Poetics] needs to read this one of Scott's." -GENE FENDT, Ancient
Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 1, Spring 2019: 248-252. [(Gerald])
Else's book is Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument, Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1957.]
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