Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato's Republic

Description: Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato's Republic Naddaff, Ramona A. Product Overview The question of why Plato censored poetry in his Republic has bedeviled scholars for centuries. In Exiling the Poets, Ramona A. Naddaff offers a strikingly original interpretation of this ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy. Underscoring not only the repressive but also the productive dimension of literary censorship, Naddaff brings to light Plato's fundamental ambivalence about the value of poetic discourse in philosophical investigation. Censorship, Nadaff argues, is not merely a mechanism of silencing but also provokes new ways of speaking about controversial and crucial cultural and artistic events. It functions philosophically in the Republic to subvert Plato's most crucial arguments about politics, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. Naddaff develops this stunning argument through an extraordinary reading of Plato's work. In books 2 and 3, the first censorship of poetry, she finds that Plato constitutes the poet as a rival with whom the philosopher must vie agonistically. In other words, philosophy does not replace poetry, as most commentators have suggested; rather, the philosopher becomes a worthy and ultimately victorious poetic competitor. In book 10's second censorship, Plato exiles the poets as a mode of self- subversion, rethinking and revising his theory of mimesis, of the immortality of the soul, and, most important, the first censorship of poetry. Finally, in a subtle and sophisticated analysis of the myth of Er, Naddaff explains how Plato himself censors his own censorships of poetry, thus producing the unexpected result of a poetically animated and open-ended dialectical philosophy. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; 1st edition (February 15, 2003) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 204 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226567273 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 73 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches Best Sellers Rank: #4,246,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #2,488 in Censorship & Politics #3,345 in History of Philosophy #4,353 in Poetry Literary Criticism (Books) #2,488 in Censorship & Politics #3,345 in History of Philosophy We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.

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