The Perils of Uglytown : : Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt /

The Perils of Uglytown : : Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt / / Harry Berger.

With characteristic wit, Harry Berger, Jr., brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls "structural misanthropology." Beginning with a novel reading of Plato, Berger emphasizes Socrates's self-acknowledged failures. The dia...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Berger, Harry,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. A Polar Model of Culture Change
  • PART I. MISANTHROPOLOGY IN PLATO'S DIALOGUES
  • 2. The Discourse of Pleonexia
  • 3. Dying Angry
  • 4. More Than a Talking Head
  • 5. The Perils of Uglytown
  • 6. Adeimantus and Glaucon
  • 7. Four Virtues in the Republic: (1) Wisdom
  • 8. Four Virtues in the Republic: (2) Courage, The Well-Born Lye
  • 9. Four Virtues in the Republic: (3) Temperance
  • 10. Four Virtues in the Republic: (4) Justice
  • 11. Apprehension in the Timaeus
  • PART II. MISANTHROPOLOGY IN EARLY MODERN CULTURE
  • 12. Cybernetic Alienation
  • 13. Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo's Cave
  • 14. Prospero's Humiliation
  • 15. The Drama of Competitive Posing
  • Notes
  • Index

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