Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Philosopher's SongCondition: NewEAN: 9780739144060ISBN: 9780739144060Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/29/2009Item Height: 240mmItem Length: 162mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 544gAuthor: Kevin CrottyLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Poets' Influence on PlatoISBN-10: 0739144065Description: The Philosopher's Song is a full-length treatment of Plato and the dynamic course of his philosophical thought, regarded from a distinctly poetic point of view. Kevin Crotty demonstrates how Plato's invention of philosophy needs to be situated within the context of a society where poets were cultural authorities, whose teachings emphasized such tragic themes as the instability of things and the indeterminacy of moral terms. The interest of Plato's philosophy lies to a great extent in the compelling interest of what he sought to repress-the poetic and political heritage of a world tragically conceived. Plato's attacks on the poets are notorious. Despite his apparently frank hostility, however, his relation to the poets was exceedingly complex, argues Crotty. Even the banishment of the poets in the Republic turns out to be, more deeply, a recruitment of mimetic poetry for Plato's metaphysics. Once endowed with a metaphysical significance, however, the poets posed a serious challenge to Platonic idealism, and spurred Plato to revise considerably his metaphysical scheme. Crotty ultimately concludes that the views of politics and ethics in Plato's later works return in many ways to the insights of the poets.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary ApproachesTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Philosopher's Song
Title: The Philosopher's Song
EAN: 9780739144060
ISBN: 9780739144060
Release Date: 12/29/2009
Release Year: 2009
Subtitle: The Poets' Influence on Plato
ISBN-10: 0739144065
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 276 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Philosopher's Song : the Poets' Influence on Plato
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient & Classical
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Author: Kevin Crotty
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Ser.
Format: Hardcover
