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Plato And Aristophanes Comedy Politics And The Pursuit Of A Just Life Marina Marren

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Plato And Aristophanes Comedy Politics And The Pursuit Of A Just Life Marina Marren
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Plato And Aristophanes Comedy Politics And The Pursuit Of A Just Life Marina Marren instant download after payment.

Publisher: Northwestern University Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 3.7 MB
Pages: 144
Author: Marina Marren
ISBN: 9780810144187, 0810144182
Language: English
Year: 2021

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Plato And Aristophanes Comedy Politics And The Pursuit Of A Just Life Marina Marren by Marina Marren 9780810144187, 0810144182 instant download after payment.

In Plato and Aristophanes, Marina Marren contends that our search for communal justice must start with self-examination. The realization that there are things that we cannot know about ourselves unless we become the subject of a joke is integral to such self-scrutiny. Jokes provide a new perspective on our politics and ethics; they are essential to our civic self-awareness.
 
Marren makes this case by delving into Plato’s Republic, a foundational work of political philosophy. While the Republic straightforwardly condemns the decadence and greed of a tyrant, Plato’s attack on political idealism is both solemn and comedic. In fact, Plato draws on the same comedic stock and tropes as do Aristophanes’s plays. Marren’s book strikes up an innovative conversation between three works by Aristophanes—Assembly Women, Knights, and Birds—and Plato’s philosophy, prompting important questions about individual convictions and one’s personal search for justice. These dialogic works offer critiques of tyranny that are by turns brilliant, scathing, and exuberant, making light of faults and ideals alike. Philosophical comedy exposes despotism in individuals as well as systems of government claiming to be just and good. This critique holds as much bite against contemporary injustices as it did at the time of Aristophanes and Plato.
 
An ingenious new work by an emerging scholar, Plato and Aristophanes shows that comedy—in tandem with philosophy and politics—is essential to self-examination. And without such examination, there is no hope for a just life.

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