Ontology and the Art of Tragedy Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Approach to the Corpus as a Whole	7
1.1	The Systematic, The Chronological, The Aporetic Approach	7
1.2	The Pervasive Substantive-Methodological Conceptual Constants	9
Ch. 2	Approach to the Poetics	17
2.1	The Poetics as a Special Science	17
2.2	Techne-Physis (Mimesis 1)	18
2.3	Artistic Techne (Mimesis 2)	26
2.4	Poetical Techne, Tragic Techne	28
2.5	Tragedy as an Ousia	29
Ch. 3	Levels Within the Poetics	35
3.1	The First Level: Being	36
3.2	The Second and Third Levels: Mimesis 1 and Mimesis 2	67
3.3	The Aporia of Mimesis and Aristotle's Solution	70
Ch. 4	Agent-Centering, Patient-Centering, Object-Centering	79
4.1	Agent-Centering and Object-Centering	80
4.2	Patient-Centering and Object-Centering	90
	Conclusion	101
	App.: Textual Evidence	111
	Notes	117
	References	135
	Index of Names	139
	Subject Index	141
	Index of Passages Cited	151