Exiling the poets the production of censorship in Plato's Republic
The question of why Plato censored poetry in his Republic has bedeviled scholars for centuries. In Exiling the Poets, Ramona A. Naddaff offers a strikingly original interpretation of this ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy. Underscoring not only the repressive but also the productive dime...
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Chicago :
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2002.
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- Preface Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION The Other Side of Censorship: Literature on Trial 1. The "Miserable Inventions" of Poets "And There Will Be Poets" A Tradition of Poetic Truth Tellers Behind the Veil of Censorship 2. New Songs Are Best Socrates' "Homericide" "They Could Be Heroes": The Guardians' Poetic Education Another Way to Sing a Song: Student, Rhapsodist, and Poet 3. The Making of the Poet's Image From Identity to Difference The Philosopher on the Couch: From Creators to Imitators Dangerous Mimetic Images and Artists Finally, the Poet 4. The Death of Poetry, the Poetry of Death Eternal Returns The Civil War of the Divided Soul Enslaving Reason: Sympathy for the Other Conclusion: A Myth to End . . . All Myths Innovative Action and Conservative Reaction Production, Repression, and Self-Subversion Notes Bibliography Index
