Cover: Preface to Plato, from Harvard University PressCover: Preface to Plato in PAPERBACK

Preface to Plato

Product Details

PAPERBACK

$30.00 • £26.95 • €27.95

ISBN 9780674699069

Publication Date: 04/15/1982

Short

342 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

Belknap Press

World

Add to Cart

Media Requests:

Related Subjects

  • I. The Image-Thinkers
    • 1. Plato on Poetry
    • 2. Mimesis
    • 3. Poetry as Preserved Communication
    • 4. The Homeric Encyclopedia
    • 5. Epic as Recorded as Record versus Epic as Narrative
    • 6. Hesiod on Poetry
    • 7. The Oral Sources of the Hellenic Intelligence
    • 8. The Homeric State of Mind
    • 9. The Psychology of the Poetic Performance
    • 10. The Content and Quality of the Poetised Statement
  • II. The Necessity of Platonism
    • 11. Psyche or the Separation of the Knower from the Known
    • 12. The Recognition of the Known as Object
    • 13. Poetry as Opinion
    • 14. The Origin of the Theory of Forms
    • 15. “The Supreme Music Is Philosophy”

Recent News

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Photograph of the book Fearless Women against red/white striped background

A Conversation with Elizabeth Cobbs about Fearless Women

For Women’s History Month, we are highlighting the work of Elizabeth Cobbs, whose new book Fearless Women shows how the movement for women’s rights has been deeply entwined with the history of the United States since its founding. Cobbs traces the lives of pathbreaking women who, inspired by American ideals, fought for the cause in their own ways…