The Perils of Uglytown: Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt

by Harry Berger Jr.

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With characteristic wit, Harry Berger, Jr., brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls "structural misanthropology." Beginning with a novel reading of Plato, Berger emphasizes Socrates's self-acknowledged failures. The dialogues, he shows, offer up, only to dispute, a misanthropic polis. The Athenian city-state, they worry, is founded on a social order motivated by apprehension--both...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823245179

ISBN13:9780823245178

Release Date:July 2015

Publisher:Fordham University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 9.1"

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