Plato The Mythmaker

Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226075198
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato the Myth Maker written by Luc Brisson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.

Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato the Mythmaker written by Luc Brisson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine Collobert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004218661
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato and Myth written by Catherine Collobert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the contributions of specialists in the field, this volume addresses the still open question of the role and status of myth in Plato’s dialogues and thereby speaks to the broader problem of the relation between philosophy and poetic discourse.

Author : Plato,
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019955255X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Myths written by Plato, and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together ten of the most celebrated Platonic myths, from eight of Plato's dialogues ranging from the early Protagoras and Gorgias to the late Timaeus and Critias. They include the famous myth of the cave from Republic as well as 'The Judgement of Souls' and 'The Birth of Love'. Each myth is a self-contained story, prefaced by a short explanatory note, while the introduction considers Plato's use of myth and imagery.

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myths of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226075389
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Philosophers Saved Myths written by Luc Brisson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exegesis. Brisson shows to what degree allegory was employed among philosophers and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical. How Philosophers Saved Myths also describes how, during the first years of the modern era, allegory followed a more religious path, which was to assume a larger role in Neoplatonism. Ultimately, Brisson explains how this embrace of myth was carried forward by Byzantine thinkers and artists throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance; after the triumph of Chistianity, Brisson argues, myths no longer had to agree with just history and philosophy but the dogmas of the Church as well.

Author : Luc Brisson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226075354
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Philosophers Saved Myths written by Luc Brisson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luc Brisson explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance and how philosophers must be awarded the credit for saving these colourful tales from historical annialation.

Author : Daniel S. Werner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107021286
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus written by Daniel S. Werner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of myth in Plato's Phaedrus, arguing that it leads readers to participate in Plato's dialogues and to engage in self-examination.

Author : Omid Tofighian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137580445
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Philosophy in Platonic Dialogues written by Omid Tofighian and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks Plato’s creation and use of myth by drawing on theories and methods from myth studies, religious studies, literary theory and related fields. Individual myths function differently depending on cultural practice, religious context or literary tradition, and this interdisciplinary study merges new perspectives in Plato studies with recent scholarship and theories pertaining to myth. Significant overlaps exist between prominent modern theories of myth and attitudes and approaches in studies of Plato’s myths. Considering recent developments in myth studies, this book asks new questions about the evaluation of myth in Plato. Its appreciation of the historical conditions shaping and directing the study of Plato’s myths opens deeper philosophical questions about the relationship between philosophy and myth and the relevance of myth studies to philosophical debates. It also extends the discussion to address philosophical questions and perspectives on the distinction between argument and narrative.

Author : Catalin Partenie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107404076
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Myths written by Catalin Partenie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In archaic societies myths were believed to tell true stories - stories about the ultimate origin of reality. For us, on the contrary, the term 'myth' denotes a false belief. Between the archaic notion of myth and ours stands Plato's. This volume is a collection of ten studies by eminent scholars that focus on the ways in which some of Plato's most famous myths are interwoven with his philosophy. The myths discussed include the eschatological myths of the Gorgias, the Phaedo, the Republic and Laws 10, the central myths of the Phaedrus and the Statesman, and the so-called myth of the Noble Lie from the Republic. The mythical character of the Timaeus cosmology is also amply discussed. The volume also contains seventeen rare Renaissance illustrations of Platonic myths. The contributors argue that in Plato myth and philosophy are tightly bound together, despite Plato's occasional claim that they are opposed modes of discourse.