Why Plato Wrote

Danielle S. Allen (Autor)

Software / Digital Media

240 Seiten

2012
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Hersteller)
978-1-4443-2808-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Why Plato Wrote is the first book to be published in the prestigious Blackwell Bristol Lecture Series in Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition. In this thought-provoking text Danielle Allen eloquently argues that Plato wrote to change Athenian culture and thereby transform Athenian politics.

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Why Plato Wrote argues that Plato was not only the world's first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world's first think-tank activist and message man. * Shows that Plato wrote to change Athenian society and thereby transform Athenian politics * Offers accessible discussions of Plato's philosophy of language and political theory

Autor

Danielle S. Allen is UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. She is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000) and Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004).

Inhalt

Preface: Why think about Plato? Part I: Why Plato Wrote. Chapter 1: Who Was Plato? Chapter 2: The Importance of Symbols to Human Life. Chapter 3: The Philosopher as Model-Maker. Chapter 4: The Philosopher as Shadow-Maker. Chapter 5: What Plato Wrote. Chapter 6: How Plato Lived. Part II: What Plato Did. Chapter 7: The Case for Influence. Chapter 8: Culture War Emergent. Chapter 9: Culture War Concluded. Epilogue: And to my colleagues.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.3.2012
• Verlagsort: Chicester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-2808-5 / 1444328085
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-2808-0 / 9781444328080
• Zustand: Neuware