Plato the myth maker

書誌事項

Plato the myth maker

Luc Brisson ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Gerard Naddaf

University of Chicago Press, 2000

Paperback ed

タイトル別名

Platon, les mots et les mythes : comment et pourquoi Platon nomma le mythe?

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注記

Originally published: Paris : Découverte, c1994

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-168) and indexes

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内容説明

We think of a myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term "muthos" in that sense. But Plato also used "muthos" to describe the practice of making and telling myths, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of this text, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of "muthos" in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech which he believed was far superior: the "logos" of philosophy. Brisson's work is part lexical, part philosophical, and part ethnological, and Gerard Naddaf's substantial introduction shows the originality and importance both of Brisson's method and of Plato's analysis in the context of contemporary debates over the origin and evolution of the oral tradition.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA61866567
  • ISBN
    • 0226075192
  • LCCN
    98008641
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    fre
  • 出版地
    Chicago, Ill.
  • ページ数/冊数
    lv, 188 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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