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The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations in Theater and Philosophy
Ist Teil von
Theatre survey, 2012-04, Vol.53 (1), p.137
Ort / Verlag
Washington: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
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Literature Online (LION)
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Plato was in competition with establishment forms of theatre, and attempted to create a new form of dramaturgy: he wrote in prose instead of verse; he eliminated the chorus; he mixed genres; and his plots were open-ended, allowing his small audiences or readers to make up their own minds about the significance of what they saw or read. A similar situation obtains in the Symposium, where at the height of Socrates' recital of Diotima's discourse on the higher stages of love, a drunken Alcibiades bursts into the scene full of amorous desire. The Drama of Ideas is an important corrective to some of the stale clichés that have gathered around Plato. Besides placing him at the head of a long line of dramatic Platonists, Puchner contextualizes Plato historically, noting that his idealistic philosophy of Forms was strategically constructed as a much-needed antidote to the linguistic, moral, and epistemological relativism of the Sophists, a relativism that had come to serve power in dangerous ways.