Overview

Full Product Details

9781530500772

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

After working in ballet, Gregory Scott finished his dissertation, Unearthing Aristotle's Dramatics: Why There is No Theory of Literature in the Poetics, under Francis Sparshott at the University of Toronto, while also studying under one of the esteemed 20th century scholars of the Poetics, Daniel de Montmollin. He then taught for four years as a full-time philosopher at universities in the U.S. and Canada. Afterwards, he engaged in a post-doctoral fellowship under Sarah Broadie at Princeton University (Philosophy) while simultaneously directing the doctoral program in dance education at New York University. At NYU, he created The Practice & Theory of Teaching Ballet, with co-directors that included Claude Bessy of the Paris Opera Ballet School and Dinna Bj�rn of the Royal Danish Ballet. Scott's publications include The Poetics of Performance: The Necessity of Performance, Spectacle, Music, and Dance in Aristotelian Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Purging the Poetics (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 2003). Scott has published articles on the philosophy of dance in journals such as Dance Research Journal, including Twists and Turns: Modern Misconceptions of Peripatetic Dance Theory (Dance Research, Edinburgh University Press, 2005). His Aristotle's Favorite Tragedy: Oedipus or Cresphontes? was published in 2016, with a 2nd edition appearing in 2018. Scott has taught the The Meaning of Life and The Art and Theory of Dance since 1995 in Humanities at NYU (SPS) and is finishing a book Aristotle's Not to Fear Proof for the Necessary Eternality of the Universe without the Unmoved Mover (expected publication 2019-20). He can be reached at gls62@columbia.edu.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available