Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy - Plato''s Republic

Informationen zum Autor GENE FENDT grew up in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, the eldest of twelve children born to Gene and Mary Fendt. After this happy childhood, he spent the greatest part of his teaching career in the very middle of the country, where he was granted the first Albertus Magnus Chair in Philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. Besides poetry, he has published on a broad range of topics, a number of which show up among these poems. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ModernityChapter Two: Psyche's PharmacyChapter Three: Enlarging Homer: An Aristophanic Sex Comedy Chapter Four: Out of the Cave: The divided line as pharmaceutical outline of the RepublicInterlude: Of analogy, tri-partition, and logical and poetic form Chapter Five: From Mathematics to Social Science: The Six Geometries of Regime in RepublicChapter Six: Polymorphous Perversity: Desires, delusions and catharses of Republic's charactersCoda and Prelude: The Liturgical Catharsis of Republic

Product details

• Authors: Gene Fendt, Fendt Gene
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2014
• EAN: 9780739193907
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9390-7
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500