Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Plato --- Plato. --- Plato - Laws

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Political science --- Philosophy --- Plato. --- Political science - Philosophy --- Plato. - Laws

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

What role did the performance of poetry, music, song, and dance play in the political life of the ancient city? How has philosophy positioned itself and articulated its own ambitions in relation to the poet tradition? The Polis and the Stage poses such questions through a reading of Plato last, longest, and unfinished work, the Laws. Plato's engagement with the Greek poetic tradition has long been recognized as foundational in the history of literary criticism, but the broader critical and philosophical significance of the Laws has been largely ignored. Although Plato is often thought hostile to mimetic art, famously banishing poets from the ideal city of the Republic, this book shows that in his final dialogue Plato made a striking about-face, proposing to rehabilitate Athenian performance culture and envisioning a city, in which poetry, music, song, and dance are instrumental in the cultivation of philosophical virtues. The psychological underpinnings of aesthetic experience and the power of mimetic art to predispose a society to specific kinds of constitutions are central themes throughout this study. Plato's views of the performative properties of language and genre receives systematic treatment in this study for the first time. Performance as a mechanism of sexual construction-a network of social practices uniquely suited to communicate and enforce normative conceptions of gender and erotic pleasure-is another focus, with special attention given to positions occupied by women in the culture envisaged in the Laws. As a whole, Marcus Folch's book provides an integrated interpretation of Plato's final dialogue with the Greek poetic tradition, an exploration of the dialectic between philosophy and mimetic art, which will be of interest to anyone concerned with understanding ancient Greek performance and the emergence of philosophical discourse in fourth-century Athens

Greek drama --- History and criticism. --- Plato. --- History and criticism --- Plato. - Laws --- Greek drama - History and criticism

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Platonists --- Political science --- Republics --- Platoniciens --- Science politique --- République --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Plato. --- Plato --- Platonic philosophy --- Political philosophy --- Criticism --- République --- Political science - Philosophy --- Plato - Republic --- Plato - Laws

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Les Lois de Platon constituent une œuvre majeure dans l’histoire de la pensée politique. La perspective systématique, qui remonte vers les fondements de la législation, s’y combine avec l’élaboration concrète de lois détaillées, ce qui les distingue de la République. Leur importance vient en outre et avant tout de ce qu’elles ont élaboré une série de concepts et de principes politiques appelés à un long avenir. Négativement, les Lois, en un contraste frappant avec la thèse du philosophe-roi de la République, thématisent pour la première fois le principe en vertu duquel « le pouvoir absolu corrompt absolument » (principe dit de Lord Acton). Positivement, les notions de « constitution mixte », de « règne de la loi », et de « préambule législatif » y trouvent leur première articulation conceptuelle, voire leur première formulation. Dernier ouvrage de Platon, les Lois restent un texte peu fréquenté, en dépit de leur importance obvie. C’est que, outre leur longueur, elles sont d’écriture difficile et opaques dans leur structure. Le présent essai vise à fournir, d’abord de manière synthétique, puis en commentant un certain nombre de passages, les éléments clefs permettant de s’orienter dans le maquis de développements dont elles sont faites. Il propose ce faisant une interprétation originale de la relation complexe que les Lois entretiennent avec la République, en mettant au centre de l’analyse la question de la relation entre loi et persuasion.

Platonic philosophy --- Plato --- History and criticism. --- Criticism --- Political science --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Plato. --- Political science - Greece. --- Plato. - Laws. --- philosophie --- médiation --- coercition --- lois