Free Download Ramona A. Naddaff, "Exiling the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato’s Republic"
English | ISBN: 0226567273 | 2003 | 204 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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.