Martha Husain 
Ontology and the Art of Tragedy [PDF ebook] 
An Approach to Aristotle’s Poetics

Preface
Introduction

1. Approach to the Corpus as a Whole

1.1 The Systematic, the Chronological, the Aporetic Approach
1.2 The Pervasive Substantive-Methodological Conceptual Constants

1.2.1 The Concept of Being
1.2.2 The Categories of Being
1.2.3 The Categorial Priority of Ousia
1.2.4 Immanent Causal Form-Matter Constitution in the Category of Ousia
1.2.5 The Ontological and Cognitive Priority of the Object

2. Approach To The Poetics

2.1 The Poetics As A Special Science
2.2 Techne-Physis (Mimesis 1)
2.3 Artistic Techne (Mimesis 2)
2.4 Poetical Techne, Tragic Techne
2.5 Tragedy as an Ousia

3. Levels within the Poetics

3.1 The First Level: Being

3.1.1 The Concept of Being
3.1.2 The Categories of Being
3.1.3 The Categorial Priority of Ousia
3.1.4 Immanent Causal Form-Matter Constitution in the Category of Ousia
3.1.5 The Ontological and Cognitive Priority of the Object

3.2 The Second and Third Levels: Mimesis 1 and Mimesis 2
3.3 The Aporia of Mimesis and Aristotle’s Solution

3.3.1 Liberties Art May Not Take
3.3.2 Liberties Art May Take
3.3.3 Liberties Art Must Take

4. Agent-Centering, Patient-Centering, Object-Centering

4.1 Agent-Centering and Object-Centering

4.1.1 Agent-Centering
4.1.2 Object-Centering
4.1.3 Comparison of Ethical and Tragic Action

4.2 Patient-Centering and Object-Centering

4.2.1 Patient-Centering
4.2.2 Comparison of Rhetorical and Tragic Action

Conclusion
Appendix: Textual Evidence
Notes
References
Index of Names
Subject Index
Index of Passages Cited

Martha Husain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brock University.