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In praise of Plato's poetic imagination /
Plato has often been read as denigrating the cognitive and ethical value of poetry. In his dialogues, the faculty that corresponds to the poetic--the imagination--is located at the lowest level of human intelligence, and so, it is furthest from true understanding. Simultaneously, Platonic dialogues...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
c2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A history of the ancient "quarrel" : the philosophical "side"
- On the "side" of poetry in the ancient "quarrel"
- Imagination in the Sophist
- The pharmacological structure of the imagination
- The unity of form and content in Platonic dialogues
- Imagination and the ancient "quarrel".