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Poetic justice : rereading Plato's Republic /
When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato's dialogs as written texts to be read and reread. At th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Learning to Read; 1. Reading Plato; Reading, writing, fathers, and kings; How Plato wrote; Mimetic poetry; Mirrors; Representation; Resistance and self-authorization; 2. Poetry: The Measure of Truth; Alienating authority, fathers again; Poetry silenced; Forms, knowledge, looks, simulacra; Poetryâ#x80;#x99;s use; Poetryâ#x80;#x99;s reason; Poetryâ#x80;#x99;s benefit; 3. A Life without Poetry; The brothersâ#x80;#x99; desire; Warriors, guardians, dogs; Poets, founders, gods; Simple minds; Obedience, domination, calculation, injustice; An aischropolis; Justice in and by itself.
- 4. The Power of PersuasionCompulsion; Deception; A grammatical interlude; Elenchos; Persuading in the middle voice; Analogy; Free and beautiful discussions; 5. ErÅ#x8D;s: The Work of Desire; Philosopher-kings, philosophers by nature, philosophical erotics; Desiring possession; Ladders, immortality, instrumentality; Genesis, reproduction in difference, belonging; Framing desire; ErÅ#x8D;s and philosophy; Necessity, tyranny, and democracy; 6. Dialectics: Making Sense of Logos; Provocatives; What do I see? or, The powers of sense perception; What do I think? or, Having an opinion.
- What do I make of it? or, Measuring, incommensurability, relationalityFraming knowledge; Impostures, images, truth; Willing to pay attention, an attitude of soul, phronÄ#x93;sis; A city in logos; Epilogue: Poetic Justice; Seeming, being, doing; Judging, appearances, imagination; No harm, one man:one art; Political philosophy; Work Cited; Index.