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Platonic occasions : dialogues on literature, art and culture / / Richard Begam & James Soderholm



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Autore: Begam Richard <1950-, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: Platonic occasions : dialogues on literature, art and culture / / Richard Begam & James Soderholm Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stockholm, Sweden : , : Stockholm University Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 189 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 111.85
801.95
Soggetto topico: Criticism (Philosophy)
Art - Philosophy
English literature - History and criticism
Philosophical literature
Imaginary conversations
Dialogues, English
Persona (resp. second.): SoderholmJames <1957-, >
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: Part One: Art and aesthetics -- Part Two: Evil, death, love, politics -- Part Three: Philosophical digressions.
Sommario/riassunto: In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns—from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed “We are all Greeks,” and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors? Begam and Soderholm’s ten dialogues function as a series of dual-meditations that take Plato as an intellectual godfather while presenting a new form of dialogic knowledge based on the friction and frisson of two minds contending, inventing and improvising. The authors discuss not only what is healthy and vigorous about Western culture but also consider where that culture is in retreat, as they seek to understand the legacy of the Enlightenment and its relation to the contemporary moment. Platonic Occasionsis an experiment in criticism that enjoins the reader to imagine what the dialogic imagination can do when inspired by Platonic inquiry, but not bound by a single master and the singular mind. Beyond Socratic maieutics and Cartesian meditation is a form of intellectual interplay where it is impossible not to be of two minds.
Titolo autorizzato: Platonic occasions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9789176350034
9789176350003
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910131151503321
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Serie: Stockholm English studies ; ; 1.