[Mobile library] The Perils of Uglytown: Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt
♛ Harry Berger Jr. ♛
| #3263618 in Books | 2015-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.00 x.90 x9.00l,.0 | File Name: 0823245179 | 336 pages
|||Somewhere in his innermost closet Harry Berger, Jr., must harbor the secret of perennial freshness. For decades now his vitally important work has conferred the power to see with new eyes familiar works of literature, philosophy, and art, as if their innermos
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 th...
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