Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/007855168/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 26 of
26
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""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 and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy."--BOOK JACKET. "Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Platon, les mots et les mythes. English".
- catalog contributor b10875160.
- catalog contributor b10875161.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""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 and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy."--BOOK JACKET. "Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-168) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Plato's testimony : the communication of the memorable. Information -- Means of transmission -- Fabrication -- Narration -- Reception -- Imitation -- Persuasion -- Plato's critique : the discourse of and for the other -- Myth as discourse -- Opposition between myth and falsifiable discourse -- Opposition between myth and argumentative discourse -- Utility of myth -- Repudiation of allegorical interpretation -- Plato's derivative use of the term "muthos."".
- catalog extent "lv, 188 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0226075184 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "184 21".
- catalog subject "B398.M8 B55 1998".
- catalog subject "Myth.".
- catalog subject "Plato.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Plato's testimony : the communication of the memorable. Information -- Means of transmission -- Fabrication -- Narration -- Reception -- Imitation -- Persuasion -- Plato's critique : the discourse of and for the other -- Myth as discourse -- Opposition between myth and falsifiable discourse -- Opposition between myth and argumentative discourse -- Utility of myth -- Repudiation of allegorical interpretation -- Plato's derivative use of the term "muthos."".
- catalog title "Plato the myth maker / Luc Brisson ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gerard Naddaf.".
- catalog title "Platon, les mots et les mythes. English".
- catalog type "text".