The Bow and the Lyre
A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey
In this exciting interpretation of the Odyssey, the late renowned scholar Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings. In light of this possibility, Bernardete works back and forth from Homer to Plato to examine the relation between wisdom and justice and tries to recover an original understanding of philosophy that Plato, too, recovered by reflecting on the wisdom of the poet. At stake in his argument is no less than the history of philo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7425-6596-8
- EAN: 9780742565968
- Produktnummer: 4317526
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 194 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.0 cm 279 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 279
Über den Autor
Seth Benardete was professor of classics at New York University. He was the author of The Being of the Beautiful, The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy, Socrates' Second Sailing, and The Tragedy and Comedy of Life.
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