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Fendt Gene <1955-> |
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Comic cure for delusional democracy : Plato's Republic / / Gene Fendt |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Plato's Mimetic Art; 1 The Madman at the Door; 2 Psyche's Pharmacy; 3 Enlarging Homer; 4 Out of the Cave; Interlude; 5 From Mathematics to Social Science; 6 Polymorphous Perversity; Coda and Prelude; Bibliography; Index of Passages Cited; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<span><span>In this book, author Gene Fendt shows how Plato's </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Republic </span><span>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.</span></span> |
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