The Politics of “Theory” in a Late Twentieth-Century University: A Memoir

Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2012 (159):132-143 (2012)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

When the character Socrates introduces his allegory of the cave at the beginning of book seven of Plato's Republic, he says that it is a story about “our nature in its education and want of education.”1 If we lack education, we grasp the passing shadows as real; if we are dragged out of the cave by force “along the rough, steep, upward way” toward the sun—that is, if we are educated—we come to recognize things as they are, and therefore the error of our previous perceptions. Many readers of this allegory—from early Christian Neoplatonists to influential twentieth-century interpreters of…

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 93,774

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Spelunking with Socrates.Victor Boutros - 1998 - The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 3:55-64.
Are we trapped in Plato’s cave?David Weissman - 2021 - Metaphilosophy 52 (5):650-654.
The 'Simile Of Light' In Plato'S Republic.N. R. Murphy - 1932 - Classical Quarterly 26 (02):93-.
Eastern Philosophies of Education: Buddhist, Hindu, Daoist, and Confucian Readings of Plato’s Cave.David Lewin & Oren Ergas - 2018 - In Ann Chinnery, Nuraan Davids, Naomi Hodgson, Kai Horsthemke, Viktor Johansson, Dirk Willem Postma, Claudia W. Ruitenberg, Paul Smeyers, Christiane Thompson, Joris Vlieghe, Hanan Alexander, Joop Berding, Charles Bingham, Michael Bonnett, David Bridges, Malte Brinkmann, Brian A. Brown, Carsten Bünger, Nicholas C. Burbules, Rita Casale, M. Victoria Costa, Brian Coyne, Renato Huarte Cuéllar, Stefaan E. Cuypers, Johan Dahlbeck, Suzanne de Castell, Doret de Ruyter, Samantha Deane, Sarah J. DesRoches, Eduardo Duarte, Denise Egéa, Penny Enslin, Oren Ergas, Lynn Fendler, Sheron Fraser-Burgess, Norm Friesen, Amanda Fulford, Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Stefan Herbrechter, Chris Higgins, Pádraig Hogan, Katariina Holma, Liz Jackson, Ronald B. Jacobson, Jennifer Jenson, Kerstin Jergus, Clarence W. Joldersma, Mark E. Jonas, Zdenko Kodelja, Wendy Kohli, Anna Kouppanou, Heikki A. Kovalainen, Lesley Le Grange, David Lewin, Tyson E. Lewis, Gerard Lum, Niclas Månsson, Christopher Martin & Jan Masschelein (eds.), International Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Springer Verlag. pp. 479-497.
The ‘Simile Of Light’ In Plato'S Republic.N. R. Murphy - 1932 - Classical Quarterly 26 (2):93-102.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-10-31

Downloads
56 (#96,274)

6 months
12 (#1,086,452)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Add more references