| Description |
1 online resource (249 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in Continental thought
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Studies in Continental thought.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1 First Words -- 2 Marking the Limits -- 3 A Question of Inheritance -- 4 Nature of Nature -- 5 Technological Language -- 6 A Homeric Inheritance -- 7 What Words Will -- 8 Tragedy of Cratylus. |
| Summary |
Plato's dialogue Cratylus focuses on being and human dependence on words, or the essential truths about the human condition. Arguing that comedy is an essential part of Plato's concept of language, S. Montgomery Ewegen asserts that understanding the comedic is key to an understanding of Plato's deeper philosophical intentions. Ewegen shows how Plato's view of language is bound to comedy through words and how, for Plato, philosophy has much in common with playfulness and the ridiculous. By tying words, language, and our often uneasy relationship with them to comedy, Ewegen frames a new reading of this notable Platonic dialogue. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plato. Cratylus.
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Cratylus (Plato) |
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ewegen, S. Montgomery. Plato's Cratylus : the comedy of language. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014] xvii, 227 pages Studies in Continental thought 9780253010445 (DLC) 2013010885 |
| ISBN |
9780253010513 (electronic book) |
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0253010519 (electronic book) |
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9780253010445 (alkaline paper) |
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0253010446 (Cloth) |
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9781299999770 |
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1299999778 |
| Music No. |
MWT11531631 |
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