The poetics of philosophical language : Plato, poets and presocratics in the Republic / Zacharoula A. Petraki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petraki, Zacharoula A.

Series:

Sozomena (Berlin, Germany) ; v. 9.

Sozomena : studies in the recovery of ancient texts, 1869-6368 ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Republic--Criticism, Textual.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgments

Contents

1. Introduction

Section One: The Theory

1. Aims and perspectives

2. Poetics

3. Mythos and eikõn

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613402691

9781283402699

1283402696

9783110262162

3110262169

OCLC:

748242261