The Poetics of Philosophical Language

Download or read book The Poetics of Philosophical Language written by Zacharoula A. Petraki and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close analysis of the Republic's diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Plato's remolding of tropes and techniques from poetry and the Presocratics. This book argues that Plato smuggles poetic language into the Republic's prose in order to characterize the deceitful coloration and polymorphy that accompanies the world of Becoming as opposed to the Real. Plato's distinctive discourse thus can transmit, even to those figures focused on the visual within his Republic, the shiftiness of the base and the unjust.