Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy
Plato's Republic
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Ancient, Political
| Author: | Gene Fendt | ISBN: | 9780739193914 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | July 16, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gene Fendt |
| ISBN: | 9780739193914 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | July 16, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
Gene Fendt shows how Plato's Republic provides a liturgical purification for the political and psychic delusions of readers, even as Socrates provides the same for his interlocutors at the festival of Bendis. The central delusion in need of a cure is the dream of autarchy, or possessive individualism, still central to political theorizing, psychic self-understanding, and sexual misunderstanding today. Against many standard readings, Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy shows that the Republic itself is a defense of poetry; that kallipolis cannot be the best city and is not Socrates' ideal; that there are six forms of regime, not five; and that the true philosopher should not be unhappy to go back down to into the Plato's cave.
Gene Fendt shows how Plato's Republic provides a liturgical purification for the political and psychic delusions of readers, even as Socrates provides the same for his interlocutors at the festival of Bendis. The central delusion in need of a cure is the dream of autarchy, or possessive individualism, still central to political theorizing, psychic self-understanding, and sexual misunderstanding today. Against many standard readings, Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy shows that the Republic itself is a defense of poetry; that kallipolis cannot be the best city and is not Socrates' ideal; that there are six forms of regime, not five; and that the true philosopher should not be unhappy to go back down to into the Plato's cave.
