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The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists. Based upon the Romanes Lecture (Oxford Paperbacks)

by Iris Murdoch

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"In this book, based on her 1976 Romanes Lecture, the distinguished novelist and philosopher discusses Plato's view on art and examines sympathetically the reasons for his hostility towards it. She offers a coherent and fully argued account of Plato's theories of art and of beauty and of their metaphysical background, which shows also that Plato was aware of the dangers of his own artistry. The argument more widely concerns the place of art in life, and includes brief discussion of ideas of many other thinkers, including Kant, Tolstoy, Freud and Kierkegaard. The book also comprises in an accessible form a general view of the development of Plato's thought." [Back cover].… (more)
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En este libro, basado en las conferencias que dictó en Roma en 1976, Iris Murdoch examina la visión de Platón sobre el arte y, en particular, las razones de la manifiesta hostilidad del filósofo hacia él. Para ello la autora, al tiempo que realiza un sintético recorrido por los elementos que fundamentan las teorías platónicas sobre la Belleza, busca una explicación al hecho de que el pensador griego atribuyera tanta importancia en su obra al papel que desempeña la Belleza, pero, paradójicamente, denigrara a los artistas. Apoyándose en el contraste entre las engañosas sombras del fuego de la Caverna y la luz del sol, iluminadora de la Verdad, Murdoch pone de relieve la labor primordial que desempeñan los creadores en la revelación de lo trascendente.Su certero examen se ve además enriquecido con las ideas sobre esta inagotable y apasionante cuestión de figuras tan destacadas como Kant, Kierkegaard, Freud, Tolstói o Jane Austen. ( )
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"In this book, based on her 1976 Romanes Lecture, the distinguished novelist and philosopher discusses Plato's view on art and examines sympathetically the reasons for his hostility towards it. She offers a coherent and fully argued account of Plato's theories of art and of beauty and of their metaphysical background, which shows also that Plato was aware of the dangers of his own artistry. The argument more widely concerns the place of art in life, and includes brief discussion of ideas of many other thinkers, including Kant, Tolstoy, Freud and Kierkegaard. The book also comprises in an accessible form a general view of the development of Plato's thought." [Back cover].

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