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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824220803321

Autore

Allen Danielle S

Titolo

Why Plato wrote / / Danielle S. Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

ISBN

1-299-15756-4

1-118-55670-4

1-118-55669-0

1-4443-5191-5

Edizione

[Pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition

Disciplina

184

Soggetti

Authorship - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Why Plato wrote -- pt. 2. What Plato did.

Sommario/riassunto

In this thought-provoking text Danielle Allen eloquently argues that Plato wrote to change Athenian culture and thereby transform Athenian politics. She makes the case 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.