Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy

Plato's Republic

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Ancient, Political
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Author: Gene Fendt ISBN: 9780739193914
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: July 16, 2014
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Gene Fendt
ISBN: 9780739193914
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: July 16, 2014
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

Gene Fendt shows how Plato's Republic provides a liturgical purification for the political and psychic delusions of readers, even as Socrates provides the same for his interlocutors at the festival of Bendis. The central delusion in need of a cure is the dream of autarchy, or possessive individualism, still central to political theorizing, psychic self-understanding, and sexual misunderstanding today. Against many standard readings, Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy shows that the Republic itself is a defense of poetry; that kallipolis cannot be the best city and is not Socrates' ideal; that there are six forms of regime, not five; and that the true philosopher should not be unhappy to go back down to into the Plato's cave.

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Gene Fendt shows how Plato's Republic provides a liturgical purification for the political and psychic delusions of readers, even as Socrates provides the same for his interlocutors at the festival of Bendis. The central delusion in need of a cure is the dream of autarchy, or possessive individualism, still central to political theorizing, psychic self-understanding, and sexual misunderstanding today. Against many standard readings, Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy shows that the Republic itself is a defense of poetry; that kallipolis cannot be the best city and is not Socrates' ideal; that there are six forms of regime, not five; and that the true philosopher should not be unhappy to go back down to into the Plato's cave.

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