1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458529703321

Autore

Fendt Gene <1955->

Titolo

Comic cure for delusional democracy : Plato's Republic / / Gene Fendt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-9391-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

321/.07

Soggetti

Democracy - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

<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>



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910706969203321

Autore

Austin Samuel H.

Titolo

U.S. Geological Survey - Virginia Department of Transportation bridge scour pilot study / / by Samuel H. Austin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Reston, Virginia] : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations

Collana

Fact sheet ; ; 2018-3006

Soggetti

Scour at bridges - Forecasting

Streamflow - Statistical methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"March 2018."