Plato the myth maker / Luc Brisson ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gerard Naddaf.
Plato the myth maker / Luc Brisson ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gerard Naddaf.
Plato the myth maker / Luc Brisson ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gerard Naddaf.
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Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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1998.
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lv, 188 p. ; 24 cm.
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Pt. I. Plato's Testimony: The Communication of the Memorable. 1. Information. 2. Means of Transmission. 3. Fabrication. 4. Narration. 5. Reception. 6. Imitation. 7. Persuasion -- Pt. II. Plato's Critique: The Discourse of and for the Other. 8. Myth as Discourse. 9. The Opposition between Myth and Fa...
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Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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1998.
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We think of 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 stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted...
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Plato the myth maker / Luc Brisson ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gerard Naddaf.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-168) and indexes.
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0226075192 :
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184
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