The poetics of philosophical language : plato, poets and presocratics in the "republic" /
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 pro...
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De Gruyter,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
Publication Dates: | [2011] |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Sozomena ;
9 |
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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. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (300pages). |
ISBN: | 9783110262162(electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | PA4279 |
CLC: | B502.232 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Section One: The Theory -- 1. Aims and perspectives -- 2. Poetics -- 3. Mythos and eik n -- 4. Imagistic discourse -- 5. Imagistic language, the dramatization of language and metaphoric language -- Section Two: The Republic -- 1. Human nature and philosophical style in the Republic Book 5 -- 2. Philosophical style in the third wave of argument in Book 5 -- 3. Verbal Images in the Republic Books 2 and 6 -- 4. Philosophers, non-philosophers and the unjust in the Republic -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |