PLATON. PESNIK
PLATO. THE POET

Summary/Abstract: Essay is an inter-disciplinary approach to the problem of Plato's view of poetry: trying to seize it both in the semantic depth of the platonic text itself and in its cultural context. Poetry is deeply rooted in the divine – its sacerdotal dimension is one of the main problems both in the philosophical aim to compete with poets and in their attempt to understand the poetic phenomenon in the logical terms. Ambiguity of Plato's criticism is equally visible in the poetical quality of his own text and in the constant identification of the intra-textual voices with poets. This essay is trying to enlighten some of that ambiguity's aspects and implications.

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