Gene Fendt

Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy

Plato's Republic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, author Gene Fendt shows how Plato's Republic provides a liturgical purification for the political and psychic delusions of readers, even as Socrates provides the same for his interlocutors at the festival of Bendis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780739193907
• ISBN-10: 0739193902
• Artikelnr.: 40843810

Autorenporträt

GENE FENDT is the Albertus Magnus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Kearney-the very middle of the very middle of the country. It is a place conducive to long reflection. While teaching there for 35 years, he has published work on all the major philosophers (counting Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas among them) as well as Shakespeare, Pinter, and Tom Stoppard, and has won awards for creative writing in poetry and playwrighting. His most recent previous book is Camus' Plague: Myth for our World (Notre Dame, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Plato's Mimetic Art: The Power of the Mimetic, the Complexity
of Plato's Art Chapter One: The Madman at the Door: Delusion and Mimetic
Art in Republic and Modernity Chapter Two: Psyche's Pharmacy Chapter Three:
Enlarging Homer: An Aristophanic Sex Comedy Chapter Four: Out of the Cave:
The divided line as pharmaceutical outline of the Republic Interlude: Of
analogy, tri-partition, and logical and poetic form Chapter Five: From
Mathematics to Social Science: The Six Geometries of Regime in Republic
Chapter Six: Polymorphous Perversity: Desires, delusions and catharses of
Republic's characters Coda and Prelude: The Liturgical Catharsis of
Republic