Platonism of Walter Pater
«Throughout his engaging discussion of Pater's highly 'personal' Platonism, Lee offers a 'new portrait of Pater' (p. 251), depicting the growth of a complex mind whose Platonic affinities shed new light on the 'curiosity and desire of beauty' (Pater, Renaissance, qtd on p. 41) which Aestheticism so strongly projected onto the Hellenic past.»
Charlotte Ribeyrol, Sorbonne Université, Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism
As a teacher of Plato in Oxford's Literae Humaniores, Walter Pater was informed by philosophy from his earliest essays to his last book. The Platonism of Walter Pater examines Pater's deep engagement with Platonism throughout his career. Les mer
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In his criticism and fiction, including his studies on myth, Pater was influenced by several of Plato's dialogues. Phaedrus, Symposium, Theaetetus, Cratylus, and The Republic informed his philosophy of beauty, history, myth, knowledge, ethics, language, and style. As a philosopher, critic, and artist, Plato embodied what it meant to be an author to Pater, who imitated his creative practice from vision to expression. For Pater Platonism was also a
point of contact with his contemporaries, including Matthew Arnold and Oscar Wilde, offering a means to take new measure of their literary relationships.
Using the interdisciplinary critical tools of Pater's own educational milieu which combined literature, philosophy, and classics, The Platonism of Walter Pater repositions the importance Pater's contribution to literature and the history of ideas.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198848530
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«Throughout his engaging discussion of Pater's highly 'personal' Platonism, Lee offers a 'new portrait of Pater' (p. 251), depicting the growth of a complex mind whose Platonic affinities shed new light on the 'curiosity and desire of beauty' (Pater, Renaissance, qtd on p. 41) which Aestheticism so strongly projected onto the Hellenic past.»
Charlotte Ribeyrol, Sorbonne Université, Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism