RT Book
T1 The Sacrifice of Socrates: Athens, Plato, Girard
T2 Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture series
A1 Tyrrell, William Blake 1940-
LA English
PP East Lansing
PB Michigan State University Press
YR 2012
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/175684402X
AB Mimesis, conflict, and crisis -- Plato's victimary culture -- Aristophanic Socrates: ready victim -- Foundation murder.
AB When Athenians suffered the shame of having lost a war from their own greed and foolishness, around 404 BCE the public's blame was directed at Socrates, a man whose unique appearance and behavior, as well as his disapproval of the democracy, made him a ready target. Socrates was subsequently put on trial and sentenced to death. However, as René Girard has pointed out, no individual can be held responsible for a communal crisis. Plato's Apology depicts Socrates as both the bane and the cure of Greek society, while his Crito shows a sacrificial Socrates, what some might consider a pharmakos fig
OP 189
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN B316
SN 1-60917-338-4
SN 1-62895-126-5
SN 1-62896-126-0
SN 978-1-62895-126-4
SN 978-1-62896-126-3
SN 978-1-60917-338-8
K1 Socrates
K1 Plato : Criticism and interpretation
K1 Girard, René : 1923-2015
K1 Plato
K1 Girard, René
K1 Philosophy, Ancient
K1 PHILOSOPHY ; General
K1 Opfer
K1 Gewalt
K1 Offer
K1 Mimesis
K1 Peloponnesiska kriget 431-404 f. Kr
K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 History
K1 Greece : History : Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
K1 Athens (Greece) : History : Thirty Tyrants, 404-403 B.C
K1 Greece ; Athens
K1 Greece