The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists

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Chatto & Windus, 1990 - Philosophy - 89 pages
Murdoch examines Plato's attitude to art and the "old quarrel between poetry and philosophy." Her thoughts range over the nature of art, and she discusses the ideas of other thinkers, such as Kant, Tolstoy, Freud, and Kierkegaard.

About the author (1990)

Iris Murdoch was one of the twentieth century's most prominent novelists, winner of the Booker Prize for The Sea. She died in 1999.

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TitleThe Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists
Romanes lecture
AuthorIris Murdoch
Editionreprint, braille
PublisherChatto & Windus, 1990
ISBN0701136677, 9780701136673
Length89 pages
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Philosophy / Aesthetics
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
  
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