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The Poetics of Philosophical Language : Plato, Poets and Presocratics in the "Republic" / Zacharoula Petraki.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sozomena : Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts ; 9Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110260977
  • 9783110262162
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321/.07 23
LOC classification:
  • PA4279.R7 P48 2011eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
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.
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Frontmatter -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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