Machine generated contents note: -- 1. A Polar Model of Culture Change: Introduction to Structural Misanthropology -- Part 1. Misanthropology in Plato's Dialogues -- 2. Critical Logography: Thucydides and Plato on the Politics of Communication -- 3 Katabasis and Narrative -- 4. Safemindedness: Lysis and Crito -- 5. Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato's Phaedo -- 6. More Than a Talking Head: Socrates and Cephalus in Republic 1 -- 7. The Perils of Uglytown: Structural Misanthropology in the Republic -- 8. Adeimantus and Glaucon -- 9 Apprehension in the Timaeus: Plato's Nervous Narrator -- Part 2. Misanthropology in Early Modern Culture -- 10. Cybernetic Alienation: Prosthetic Strategies in Alberti, Leonardo, Castiglione, and Machiavelli -- 11. Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo's Cave: Vasari's Lives and the Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship -- 12. "FenceĢd ears": The King's Body Impolitic in Gorboduc, King Lear, and Richard II -- 13. Prospero's Humiliation -- 14. Bad Boys and Hipsters: Shakespeare's Iago and Rembrandt's Rembrandt -- 15. The Drama of Competitive Posing: Portrait Plots in Hals and Rembrandt.
Summary:
"The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters of the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands"-- Provided by publisher.
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