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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., I read the story through the prism of three key allegories from Plato’s The Republic : the allegories of the sun, the line, and the cave. I argue that Krzhizhanovsky deconstructs the main postulates of Platonic philosophy by showing that the acquisition of knowledge and the act of writing inevitably...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (4): 383–407.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... Harmon Maurice . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1998 . Print . Blanchot Maurice . L'Entretien infini . Paris : Gallimard , 1969 . Print . Burnet John . Greek Philosophy, Part I: Thales to Plato . London : Macmillon , 1914 . Print . Caselli Daniela . Beckett's Dantes...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 181–185.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Andrew Ford The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues. By Ruby Blondell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi, 452 p. Poetics Before Plato: Interpretation and Authority in Early Greek Theories of Poetry. By Grace M. Ledbetter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. viii...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 15–24.
Published: 01 March 2014
... underlying point in “Plato's Pharmacy” also applies: environmental remediation is itself a dissimulating text whose remedial promise both conceals and depends upon its constitutive other, its equal potency as an environmental poison. I investigate these issues by first suggesting that the promise...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 178–181.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... DAVID MIKICS University of Houston THE PLAY OF CHARACTER IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES. By Ruby Blondell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi, 452 p. POETICS BEFORE PLATO: INTERPRETATION AND AUTHORITY IN EARLY GREEK THEORIES OF POETRY. By Grace M. Ledbetter. Princeton: Princeton...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 185–192.
Published: 01 March 2005
... infectious joy in his own perceptive powers. I hope he writes some more long, hard books. DAVID MIKICS University of Houston THE PLAY OF CHARACTER IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES. By Ruby Blondell. Cambridge: Cambridge University...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... DAVID MIKICS University of Houston THE PLAY OF CHARACTER IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES. By Ruby Blondell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xi, 452 p. POETICS BEFORE PLATO: INTERPRETATION AND AUTHORITY IN EARLY GREEK THEORIES OF POETRY. By Grace M. Ledbetter. Princeton: Princeton...
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Comparative Literature (2005) 57 (2): 195–197.
Published: 01 March 2005
... and rigorous analytic manners with a potentially infectious joy in his own perceptive powers. I hope he writes some more long, hard books. DAVID MIKICS University of Houston THE PLAY OF CHARACTER IN PLATO’S DIALOGUES. By Ruby...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 347–361.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Fragmentis . Ed. Alexander Turyn. Oxford: Blackwell's, 1952 . Plato. Platonis Opera . Ed. John Burnett. 5 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905 . Said, Edward. “Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors.” Critical Inquiry 15 . 2 ( 1989 ): 205 -25. Schipper, Mineke. Imagining...
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Comparative Literature (2023) 75 (3): 308–326.
Published: 01 September 2023
... that combats not just logocentrism, but also what Derrida calls phallogocentrism, not just disciplinary rigidity, but also the heteronormative and patriarchal social structures underlying it. In “Plato’s Pharmacy” (1968) and later in Margins of Philosophy (1972), Derrida developed and coined the portmanteau...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 325–330.
Published: 01 September 2012
... versa (for example, in Parmenides and then in Plato). In the radical materialism represented by Democritean atomism, appearances are the face or mask of matter, implying that the material basis of everything is always hiding behind appearances. In other words, materialism and aestheticism...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 330–334.
Published: 01 September 2012
... versa (for example, in Parmenides and then in Plato). In the radical materialism represented by Democritean atomism, appearances are the face or mask of matter, implying that the material basis of everything is always hiding behind appearances. In other words, materialism and aestheticism...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (3): 334–337.
Published: 01 September 2012
... (like air), and to let materi- alism engender its denial and vice versa (for example, in Parmenides and then in Plato). In the radical materialism represented by Democritean atomism, appearances are the face or mask of matter, implying that the material basis of everything is always hiding behind...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 112–129.
Published: 01 March 2003
... (Origins of Words) . Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1979 . The Collected Dialogues of Plato . Ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963 . Confucius. Lunyu zhushu (Annotations on the Analects of Confucius). Shisanjing zhushu 2453 -2537. de Man, Paul...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 89–92.
Published: 01 January 2010
... opens a path back, via “empathy” and eighteenth- century “sympathy,” to Plato’s strictures about the emotional contagion of art. Tolstoy says that art rarely serves its true function — to prompt simple feelings connected with joy and social integration. His emphasis on moral guidance in art...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 92–95.
Published: 01 January 2010
... “sympathy,” to Plato’s strictures about the emotional contagion of art. Tolstoy says that art rarely serves its true function — to prompt simple feelings connected with joy and social integration. His emphasis on moral guidance in art connects him with Aristotle’s remark that we learn our earliest...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 95–98.
Published: 01 January 2010
... commu- nity of immorality. His infection theory opens a path back, via “empathy” and eighteenth- century “sympathy,” to Plato’s strictures about the emotional contagion of art. Tolstoy says that art rarely serves its true function — to prompt simple feelings connected with joy and social...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 99–100.
Published: 01 January 2010
...- century “sympathy,” to Plato’s strictures about the emotional contagion of art. Tolstoy says that art rarely serves its true function — to prompt simple feelings connected with joy and social integration. His emphasis on moral guidance in art connects him with Aristotle’s remark that we learn our...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 100–102.
Published: 01 January 2010
.... His infection theory opens a path back, via “empathy” and eighteenth- century “sympathy,” to Plato’s strictures about the emotional contagion of art. Tolstoy says that art rarely serves its true function — to prompt simple feelings connected with joy and social integration. His emphasis on moral...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 340–342.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Olympian Ode, with its connotations of “foolheartedly,” is the same as the risk of philosophy itself as it appears in Plato’s Phaedo. Here, however, the myths of the afterlife and the philosophi- cal geography of Hades, as laid out by Socrates, is not a consolation or an Augustinian finis curae...