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Images of Excellence: Plato's Critique of the Arts

Current price: $63.00
Images of Excellence: Plato's Critique of the Arts
Images of Excellence: Plato's Critique of the Arts

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Images of Excellence: Plato's Critique of the Arts

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This original new book argues for a reassessment of Plato's challenge to the arts. Plato was the first great figure in Western philosophy to assess the value of the arts; he argued in the that traditionally accepted forms of poetry, drama, and music are unsound. While this view has been widely rejected, Janaway argues that Plato's hostile case is a more coherent and profound challenge to the arts than has sometimes been supposed. Denying that Plato advocates "good art" in any modern sense, Janaway seeks both to understand Plato's critique in the context of his own philosophy and to locate him in today's philosophy of art, showing how issues in aesthetics arise from responses to his charges.

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