Introduction

L'Introduzione mette a fuoco alcune delle principali problematiche relative al concetto di 'catarsi' nella teoria aristotelica e nelle ricezione successiva presentando il fascicolo della rivista e i 9 saggi che la compongono: Andrew L. Ford, Catharsis, Music, and the Mysteries in Aristotle; Matt Cohn, Comedy, Catharsis, and the Emotions; From Aristotle to Proclus; Elisabetta Matelli, Theophrastus on Catharsis and the Need for Release from the Evils Due to Emotions; Brigitte Kappl, Profit, Pleasure, and Purgation – Catharsis in Aristotle, Paolo Beni and Italian Late Renaissance Poetics; Thomas C.K. Rist, Miraculous Organ: Shakespeare and ‘Catharsis’; Sotera Fornaro – ‘Catharsis’. From Lessing’s Moral Purification to Goethe’s Purity of Form; Martin Vöhler, The Pathological Interpretation of Catharsis; James I. Porter – Nietzsche, Tragedy, and the Theory of Catharsis; Daniela M. Schönle – Theatrical Catharsis and Its Therapeutic Effect. Catharsis in Vienna at the Turn of the Century.