A Wolf in the City

Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato's Republic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvCinzia Arruzza,New School for Social Research) Arruzza, Cinzia (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

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The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic for millennia, Cinzia Arruzza is the first to devote a full book to the study of tyranny and of the tyrant's soul in Plato's Republic.In A Wolf in the City, Arruzza argues that Plato's critique of tyranny intervenes in an ancient debate concerning the sources of the crisis of Athenian democracy and the relation between political leaders and demos in the last decades of the fifth century BCE. Arruzza shows that Plato's critique of tyranny should not be taken as veiled criticism of the Syracusan tyrannical regime, but rather of Athenian democracy. In parsing Plato's discussion of the soul of the tyrant, Arruzza will also offer new and innovative insights into his moral psychology, addressing much-debated problems such as the nature of eros and of the spirited part of the soul, the unity or disunity of the soul, and the relation between the non-rational parts of the soul and reason.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-11-08
Mått213 x 147 x 30 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190678852

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Cinzia Arruzza is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. She works on ancient philosophy and Marxist and feminist theory. She is the author of Plotinus. Ennead II 5. On What is Potentially and What Actually (Parmenides, 2015); Dangerous Liaisons. Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism (Merlin Press, 2013); Les Mésaventures de la théodicée. Plotin, Origène et Grégoire de Nysse (Brepols Publishers, 2011).

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Tyranny and DemocracyIntroductionChapter 1: Tyranny in Athens: Aversion, Fascination, and FearChapter 2: Plato's Tyrant and the Crisis of Athenian DemocracyChapter 3: Tyrannical DemocracyPart II: The Tyrant's SoulIntroductionChapter 4: The Tyranny of Eros and the Tyrannical Man's AppetitesChapter 5: The Lion and the Wolf: The Tyrant's SpiritChapter 6: Clever Villains: The Tyrant's ReasonConclusionReferencesGeneral IndexIndex Locorum