| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) |
| Series |
Sozomena : studies in the recovery of ancient texts, 1869-6368 ; v. 9 |
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Sozomena (Berlin, Germany) ; v. 9.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Plato and the Presocratics: Old and new problems -- 1.2. The language problem -- 1.3. The literary and the philosophical in Plato: Philosophy against poetry -- 1.4. The poetics of philosophical language -- 1.5. The Republic's main motifs: Mixture, diversity and purity -- 1.6. Philosophy, poetry, painting and the poikilia-motif -- 1.7. The Republic's interlocutors -- 1.8. Plato and Post-Platonic problems about language -- Section One The Theory -- 1. Aims and perspectives -- 2. Poetics -- 3. Mythos and eikon -- 4. Imagistic discourse -- 4.1. Poikilia and images -- 4.2. Eikones in Gorgias' Helen -- 4.3. Definition of Platonic imagery -- 5. Imagistic language, the dramatization of language and metaphoric language -- 5.1. Platonic Eikones: A homoiosis? -- 5.2. Dramatization of language: the theory -- 5.3. Metaphoric language -- Section Two The Republic -- 1. Human nature and philosophical style in the Republic Book 5 -- 1.1. Introduction |
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Note continued: 1.2. The "two waves" of the argument -- 1.2.1. The first wave of argument: women in the guardians' agele -- 1.2.2. The second wave of argument: the guardians' mixis and class purity -- 1.2.3. The third wave of argument -- 2. Philosophical style in the third wave of argument in Book 5 -- 2.1. Glaucon -- 2.2. The third wave again -- 2.2.1. Part one: the mixed style -- 2.2.2. Part two: the cleansed style -- 2.2.3. Part three: the imagistic style -- 3. Verbal Images in the Republic Books 2 and 6 -- 3.1. The poets' eikones in the Republic -- 3.2. Plato's eikones in the Republic -- 3.2.1. Images of human nature -- 3.2.2. The way to the Form of the Good -- 3.2.3. Plato's eikones: The Image of the Sun -- 4. Philosophers, non-philosophers and the unjust in the Republic -- 4.1. Adeimantus' philosophers -- 4.2. Human nature, "true" philosophers and "false" philosophers -- 4.3. The poetics of the unjust in Books 8 and 9 -- 4.4. The Language of Democracy and Tyranny -- 4.4.1. Democracy |
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Note continued: 4.4.2. Tyranny -- 5. Conclusion -- ̀Viewing' the skiagraphia |
| Summary |
A close analysis of the Republic's diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Plato's remolding of tropes and techniques from poetry and the Presocratics. This book argues that Plato smuggles poetic language into the Republic's prose in order to characterize the deceitful coloration and polymorphy that accompanies the world of Becoming as opposed to the Real. Plato's distinctive discourse thus can transmit, even to those figures focused on the visual within his Republic, the shiftiness of the base and the unjust |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Plato. Republic -- Criticism, Textual
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| SUBJECT |
Republic (Plato) fast |
| Subject |
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011020280 |
| ISBN |
9783110262162 |
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3110262169 |
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1283402696 |
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9781283402699 |
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3110260972 |
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9783110260977 |
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9786613402691 |
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6613402699 |
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