rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Why Plato wrote
  name:
    name part: Allen, Danielle S.
    name part: 1971-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: African American philosophers.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Malden, MA
    publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages : : illustrations, map.)
  abstract: "Why Plato Wrote is the first book to be published in the prestigious Blackwell Bristol Lecture Series in Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition. In this thought-provoking text Danielle Allen eloquently argues that Plato wrote to change Athenian culture and thereby transform Athenian politics. She makes the case that Plato was not only the world's first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world's first think-tank activist and message man. Allen contends that the roles of philosopher and message man were not mutually exclusive, and that Plato's pursuit of language as a vehicle for affecting cultural norms was grounded in his philosophy of language. Why Plato Wrote is a lucid and engaging commentary on Plato's philosophy of language and its relation to his political theory"--
  table of contents: Prologue: Why think about Plato? -- Part I: Why Plato wrote. Who was Plato? ; The importance of symbols to human life ; The philosopher as model-maker ; The philosopher as shadow-maker ; What Plato wrote ; How Plato lived -- Part II: What Plato did. The case for influence ; Culture war emergent ; Culture war concluded -- Epilogue: And to my colleagues -- Appendix 1: The relationship between paradigms and forms -- Appendix 2: A second tri-partite division of the soul? -- Appendix 3: Miso- compounds in Greek literature.
  note: Danielle S. Allen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-217) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plato
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Philosophers
    geographic: Greece
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, Ancient
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Platonists
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Western
    topic: Greek influences
  classification: B395 .A53 2010
  classification: 184
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2010027875
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition
  identifier: 9781118556696 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1118556690 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781444334487
  identifier: 1444334484
  identifier: 9781118454398
  identifier: 1118454391
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 260209
    record change date: 20260215000247.3
    record identifier: in00005689619
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng