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Plato the Myth Maker

Name: Plato the Myth Maker
Brand: University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226075181
Price: 461.12 PLN
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Autor: Luc Brisson

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: University of Chicago Press

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One thinks of a myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term "muthos" in that...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Luc Brisson

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

1999

strony

188

EAN

9780226075181

Enbook ID

04542964

Wydawca

University of Chicago Press

Waga

460

Wymiary

160 x 235 x 20

Pełny opis

One thinks of a myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term "muthos" in that sense. But Plato also used "muthos" to describe the practice of making and telling myths, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of this text, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of "muthos" in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech which he believed was far superior: the "logos" of philosophy. Brisson's work is part lexical, part philosophical, and part ethnological, and Gerard Naddaf's introduction shows the originality and importance both of Brisson's method and of Plato's analysis in the context of contemporary debates over the origin and evolution of the oral tradition.