Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt
by
Harry Berger, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
With characteristic wit, Harry Berger, Jr., brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls “structural misanthropology.” Beginning with a novel reading of Plato, Berger emphasizes Socrates’s self-acknowledged failures. The dialogues,...