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Plato as Critical Theorist
Author | : Jonny Thakkar |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2018-05-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674919602 |
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What is the best possible society? How would its rulers govern and its citizens behave? Such questions are sometimes dismissed as distractions from genuine political problems, but in an era when political idealism seems a relic of the past, says Jonny Thakkar, they are more urgent than ever. A daring experiment in using ancient philosophy to breathe life into our political present, Plato as Critical Theorist takes seriously one of Plato’s central claims: that philosophers should rule. What many accounts miss is the intimate connection between Plato’s politics and his metaphysics, Thakkar argues. Philosophy is the activity of articulating how parts and wholes best fit together, while ruling is the activity that shapes the parts of society into a coherent whole conducive to the good life. Plato’s ideal society is thus one in which ideal theory itself plays a leading role. Today’s liberal democracies require not philosopher-kings legislating from above but philosopher-citizens willing to work toward a vision of the best society in their daily lives. Against the claim that such idealism is inherently illiberal, Thakkar shows that it is fully compatible with the liberal theories of both Popper and Rawls while nevertheless pushing beyond them in providing a new vantage point for the Marxian critique of capitalism.
Critical Theory Since Plato
Author | : Hazard Adams |
Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 1304 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
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This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the field focuses on important individual thinkers, and not particular schools of thought or isms. Current selections bring the anthology into contemporary times and show students how critical theory has evolved and progressed over time.
Plato Critical Assessments
Author | : Nicholas D. Smith |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780415126052 |
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This set selects the best and most influential examples of Platonic scholarship published in English over the last fifty years, and adds translations of outstanding works published in other languages.
Plato's 'Republic'
Author | : Mark L. McPherran |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521491908 |
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The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting, puzzling, and provoking aspects of Plato's Republic.
Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present
Author | : M. A. R. Habib |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2011-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1444351567 |
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Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present day An indispensable and intellectually stimulating introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory Introduces the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism Provides historical context and shows the interconnections between various theories An ideal text for all students of literature and criticism
A History of Literary Criticism
Author | : M. A. R. Habib |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405148845 |
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This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud’s views on civilization Can be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction
Plato's 'Laws'
Author | : Christopher Bobonich |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2010-11-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139493566 |
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Long understudied, Plato's Laws has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. Written by leading Platonists, the essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics central for understanding the Laws, such as the aim of the Laws as a whole, the ethical psychology of the Laws, especially its views of pleasure and non-rational motivations, and whether and, if so, how the strict law code of the Laws can encourage genuine virtue. They make an important contribution to ongoing debates and will open up fresh lines of inquiry for further research.
Literary Criticism and Theory
Author | : Pelagia Goulimari |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135053014 |
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This incredibly useful volume offers an introduction to the history of literary criticism and theory from ancient Greece to the present. Grounded in the close reading of landmark theoretical texts, while seeking to encourage the reader's critical response, Pelagia Goulimari examines: major thinkers and critics from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Said and Butler; key concepts, themes and schools in the history of literary theory: mimesis, inspiration, reason and emotion, the self, the relation of literature to history, society, culture and ethics, feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, queer theory; genres and movements in literary history: epic, tragedy, comedy, the novel; Romanticism, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Historical connections between theorists and theories are traced and the book is generously cross-referenced. With useful features such as key-point conclusions, further reading sections, descriptive text boxes, detailed headings, and with a comprehensive index, this book is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching literary theory for the first time or unfamiliar with the scope of its history.
The Theory of Criticism from Plato to the Present
Author | : Raman Selden |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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This book is divided into five parts: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic sections in which extracts from different writers and periods are juxtaposed. The study of literary theory has tended to concentrate on very recent developments. This volume, however, establishes both a sense of the continuities from Plato to the present day as well as the discontinuities. These are presented through comparisons and contrasts across the entire field of critical history.