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PLATO?S NIGHTMARE IBD

STEVEN B KATZ
PARLOR PRESS
11 / 2025
9781643174020
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Sinopsis

Steven B. KatzâÇÖs PlatoâÇÖs Nightmare is a wide-ranging tour de force. This poetic-rhetorical-epic-treatise uses poetry and prose to explore the human desire to escape the material body and world. Beginning with SocratesâÇÖs stripping of poetry from rhetoric and speech in PlatosâÇÖs Gorgias, PlatoâÇÖs Nightmare traces the theme of disembodiment across different historical, philosophical, and literary concepts and periods, from ancient Greek sophism and Hebrew mysticism, and Christian spiritualism and scientific revolutions to transcendentalism, cybernetics, and our even more distant post-Anthropogenic future in deep space. In reunifying rhetorics and poetics in PlatoâÇÖs Nightmare KatzâÇÖs poems act as types of forensic, epideictic, deliberative arguments, forms of evidence (demonstrative, illustrative, descriptive), and commentary (contrary, irony, humorous), as well as literary objects (imitative, imaginative, aesthetic). This experimental and provocative book thus exhibits in its form and content that PlatoâÇÖs ideals of pure mind were increasingly realized, but in technological media (writing) that frightened yet exhilarated him. PlatoâÇÖs dream was physical, ambiguous, haunting, and liberating.á