Post-Colonial Dramaturgical Reflections on the Fate of Athenian Democracy (The Cave of the Philosophers by Zbigniev Herbert and Hemlock for Socrates by Valery Gerasimchuk) Cover Image

Постколоніальні драматургічні розмисли про долю афінської демократії (Печера філософів Збіґнєва Герберта і Цикута для Сократа Валерія Герасимчука)
Post-Colonial Dramaturgical Reflections on the Fate of Athenian Democracy (The Cave of the Philosophers by Zbigniev Herbert and Hemlock for Socrates by Valery Gerasimchuk)

Author(s): Olena Bondareva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Ukrainian Literature
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Socrates; the image of democracy; the myth of the cave; protagonist; dialogue

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the dramaturgical image of Socrates as a measure of the values of democracy in the plays of Polish playwright Herbert Zbigniew The Cave of the Philosophers and Ukrainian playwright Valery Gerasymchuk’s Hemlock for Socrates. It is proved that both playwrights make the image of Socrates a key for philosophical reflections not only about human life and death, but primarily about the fate and prospects of democracy in post-totalitarian Europe.

  • Issue Year: 72/2024
  • Issue No: 7S
  • Page Range: 91-106
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Ukrainian
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