Plato on Art and Beauty

by Denham, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780230314405
• ISBN10: 0230314406
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic, but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, and motivated emotions.

Author Biography

ALISON DENHAM's research has addressed a range of topics in the theory of value (both ethics and aesthetics). She is the author of an interdisciplinary study of literary art and ethics, Metaphor and Moral Experience (2000). Denham was until 2007 Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, where she occupied the post formerly held by Iris Murdoch. She has held research fellowships twice over at the Centre Nationale Recherche Scientifique in Paris, and has taught in Bucharest, China, France, the UK and the US. Denham now lectures divides her time between Oxford and Tulane University in New Orleans, where she is jointly appointed to the Departments of Philosophy and Political Economy.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on the ContributorsAbbreviationsEditor's IntroductionPART I: WHY CENSOR THE ARTISTS? UNDERSTANDING PLATO'S QUARRELFrom The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists; I.MurdochPlato and the Mass Media; A.NehamasArt and Mimesis in Plato's Republic; M.F.BurnyeatPART II: ART AND BEAUTY: BEFORE AND BEYOND REPUBLIC XPlato's Early Aesthetics: The Hippias Major; D.SiderA Divinity Moving You: Inspiration and Knowledge in the Ion; D.Barchana-LorandThe Philosopher's Antidote; G.R.F.FerrariPlato on Tragic and Comic Pleasures; P.DestréePlato on Begetting in Beauty; C.D.C.ReeveBeyond the Mirror of Nature: Plato's Ethics of Visual Form; S.HalliwellArt and Ethical Perspective: Notes on the Kalon in Plato's Laws; J.MossIndex