02159nam 2200541 450 991080680720332120200520144314.00-7391-9391-0(CKB)2550000001334225(EBL)1752861(OCoLC)884725695(SSID)ssj0001287272(PQKBManifestationID)12518783(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001287272(PQKBWorkID)11279652(PQKB)10618124(MiAaPQ)EBC1752861(Au-PeEL)EBL1752861(CaPaEBR)ebr10899129(CaONFJC)MIL630708(EXLCZ)99255000000133422520140807h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrComic cure for delusional democracy Plato's Republic /Gene FendtLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2014.©20141 online resource (315 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-9390-2 1-306-99457-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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<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>DemocracyPhilosophyDemocracyPhilosophy.321/.07Fendt Gene1955-447158MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806807203321Comic cure for delusional democracy3920524UNINA