ISBN:
9780823245178
,
9780823245161
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 324 S.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Plato
;
Philosophical anthropology
;
Structural anthropology
;
Alienation (Philosophy)
;
Art, Renaissance Philosophy
;
Anthropologie
;
Misanthropie
;
Plato v427-v347 Res publica
;
Vasari, Giorgio 1511-1574 Le vite de' più eccellenti architetti, pittori et sculptori italiani da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri
Abstract:
"The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters of the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands"--
Abstract:
"The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters of the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note:1. A Polar Model of Culture Change: Introduction to Structural Misanthropology -- Part 1. Misanthropology in Plato's Dialogues -- 2. Critical Logography: Thucydides and Plato on the Politics of Communication -- 3 Katabasis and Narrative -- 4. Safemindedness: Lysis and Crito -- 5. Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato's Phaedo -- 6. More Than a Talking Head: Socrates and Cephalus in Republic 1 -- 7. The Perils of Uglytown: Structural Misanthropology in the Republic -- 8. Adeimantus and Glaucon -- 9 Apprehension in the Timaeus: Plato's Nervous Narrator -- Part 2. Misanthropology in Early Modern Culture -- 10. Cybernetic Alienation: Prosthetic Strategies in Alberti, Leonardo, Castiglione, and Machiavelli -- 11. Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo's Cave: Vasari's Lives and the Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship -- 12. "Fencéd ears": The King's Body Impolitic in Gorboduc, King Lear, and Richard II -- 13. Prospero's Humiliation -- 14. Bad Boys and Hipsters: Shakespeare's Iago and Rembrandt's Rembrandt -- 15. The Drama of Competitive Posing: Portrait Plots in Hals and Rembrandt.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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