The Poetics of Philosophical Language: Plato, Poets and Presocratics in the "Republic"

Zacharoula Petraki

Published by De Gruyter 2011

The Poetics of Philosophical Language

Plato, Poets and Presocratics in the "Republic"

Zacharoula Petraki

Volume 9 in the series Sozomena

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110262162

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Zacharoula A. Petraki, University of the Peloponnese and University of Crete, Greece.

Reviews

"The idea that the language of the Republic constitutes a highly complex mosaic in which images predominate and in which different modes of linguistic configuration converge is at any rate interesting."
Patrizia Marzillo in: BMCR 2012.08.59

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section One: The Theory
1. Aims and perspectives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
2. Poetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
3. Mythos and eikõn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4. Imagistic discourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
5. Imagistic language, the dramatization of language and metaphoric language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Section Two: The Republic
1. Human nature and philosophical style in the Republic Book 5 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
2. Philosophical style in the third wave of argument in Book 5 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
3. Verbal Images in the Republic Books 2 and 6 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
4. Philosophers, non-philosophers and the unjust in the Republic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
5. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 292
Keywords: Plato; The Republic; Poetics; Presocratics; Philosophical Language; Literary Criticism

eBook

Published: July 28, 2011
ISBN: 9783110262162

Hardcover

Published: July 18, 2011
ISBN: 9783110260977