Images of Excellence Plato's Critique of the Arts

Name: Images of Excellence Plato's Critique of the Arts
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ISBN: 9780198240075

ISBN-10: 0198240074

ISBN-13: 9780198240075

Edition: 1995

Authors: Christopher Janaway

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This original new book argues for a reassessment of Plato's challenge to the arts. Plato was the first great figure in Western philosophy to assess the value of the arts; he argued in the Republic that traditionally accepted forms of poetry, drama, and music are unsound. While this view has been widely rejected, Janaway argues that Plato's hostile case is a more coherent and profound challenge to the arts than has sometimes been supposed. Denying that Plato advocates "good art" in any modern sense, Janaway seeks both to understand Plato's critique in the context of his own philosophy and to locate him in today's philosophy of art, showing how issues in aesthetics arise from responses to his…

Book details

List price: $78.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/10/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 236
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.82" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations and Translations


Introduction



Rhapsody



Arts, Crafts, and the Production Of Pleasure



The Fine and the Beautiful



The Formation of Character



Mim&emacr;sis



Against Mimetic Poetry



Myth, Madness, Pleasure, and Play



Plato and the Philosophy of Art


Bibliography


Glossary of Greek Terms


General Index


Index of Passages in Plato