| dc.creator | Cruzalegui Sotelo, Patricia | |
| dc.date | 2021-10-20T19:45:06Z | |
| dc.date | 2021-10-20T19:45:06Z | |
| dc.date | 1997 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-09T00:23:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-09T00:23:28Z | |
| dc.identifier | urn:isbn:9972427781 | |
| dc.identifier | https://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/181953 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/5993372 | |
| dc.description | THE PLATONIC EXPERJENCE in Nineteenth-century England explores two areas
of interest that have always been of immense importance in my intellectual and
emocional life: the philosophy of Plato and British culture and particularly that of
the eighteen-hundreds. Plato's presence during the English nineteenth century
was especially constant and multiform. lt appeared integrated into poetry in Romanticism,
for there was a strong belief throughout most of the nineteenth century
that Platonism was a form of poetic literature. In the Victorian age, the period
of maximum splendour of interest in Plato, a wide range of interpretations
arose both within and outside the academic world. Hence the second part of the
century saw the learned research and Utilitarian criticism of George Grote as
well as the three editions of the great translation of Plato into English by BenjaminJowett,
renowned as a liberal theologian and the moralising Master of Balliol
College Oxford. There followed Walter Pater with his aesthete's version of
Platonism as a sensual, eroticised and languid philosophy.
This thesis is the result of my research on the interpretations, translations
and the eminent readings of Plato in the British nineteenth century and it lays
clown the following objectives. Firstly, to point out and document the established
existence of a Platonic tradition in nineteenth century philosophy and literature
which co-existed with the more authentic, to use a commonplace, Aristotelian and
empiricist approximation of reality. The second goal is to demonstrate that
Platonism was utilised by and adapted to the different images of the world that
were forged as the century went by. Examples of these were Utilitarianism, social
Darwinism, eugenics, the democracy of the elite, Christian liberalism and
Aestheticism. The third objective is to analyse how the prestige of Plato oscillated
during different periods of the nineteenth century as well as the way in which this prestige was used with varying degrees of success in arder to valida te ideologies
and innovative or alternative ways of life as opposed to those of convention.
F ourthly, I wish to highlight the crucial role played by BenjaminJ owett in divulging
a Platonism tailored to the Victorian ideals of arder and progress, and also to
indicate how this very same Plato furnished and shaped, albeit involuntarily, the
banned ideal of the homoerotic relationship of the end-of-the-century aesthetes.
My final aim is to suggest the contemporary derivations of sorne of these
interpretations, in the field of literature, politics, sexuality and philosophy. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.language | spa | |
| dc.publisher | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial | |
| dc.publisher | PE | |
| dc.rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.5 Perú | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/pe/ | |
| dc.subject | Filosofía inglesa--Siglo XIX | |
| dc.subject | Literatura inglesa--Siglo XIX | |
| dc.subject | Platonismo--Siglo XIX--Gran Bretaña | |
| dc.subject | Romanticismo--Gran Bretaña | |
| dc.subject | Platón 427-347 a.C.--Estudio y crítica | |
| dc.subject | https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.03.01 | |
| dc.title | The platonic experience in nineteenth century: England | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/book | |
| dc.type | Libro | |
