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Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy - Plato's Republic (Hardcover)
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Comic Cure for Delusional Democracy - Plato's Republic (Hardcover)
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This book shows how the discussion of Platos' Republic is a comic
mimetic cure for civic and psychic delusion. Plato creates such
pharmaka, or noble lies, for reasons enunciated by Socrates within
the discussion, but this indicates Plato must think his readers are
in the position of needing the catharses such fictions produce.
Socrates' interlocutors must be like us. Since cities are like
souls, and souls come to be as they are through mimesis of desires,
dreams, actions and thought patterns in the city, we should expect
that political theorizing often suffers from madness as well. It
does. Gene Fendt shows how contemporary political (and
psychological) theory still suffers from the same delusion
Socrates' interlocutors reveal in their discussion: a dream of
autarchia called possessive individualism. Plato has good reason to
think that only a mimetic, rather than a rational and
philosophical, cure can work. Against many standard readings, Comic
Cure for Delusional Democracy shows that the Republic itself is a
defense of poetry; that kallipolis cannot be the best city and is
not Socrates' ideal; that there are six forms of regime, not five;
and that the true philosopher should not be unhappy to go back down
into Plato's cave.
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