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Halliwell, Francis Stephen was born on October 18, 1953 in Wigan, Lancashire, England. Son of Francis and Joyce (Casey) Halliwell.
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This edition offers a full and up-to-date commentary on the last book of the Republic, and explores in particular detail the two main subjects of the book: Plato's most famous and uncompromising condemnation of poetry and art, as vehicles of falsehood and purveyors of dangerous emotions, and the Myth of Er, which concludes the whole work with an allegorical vision of the soul's immortality and of an eternally just world-order. The commentary gives careful and critical attention to the arguments deployed by Plato against poets and artists, relating them both to the philosopher's larger ideas and to other Greek views of the subject. The sources and significance of the Myth of Er are fully studied. Among other topics, the Introduction places Republic 10 in the development of Plato's work, and makes a fresh attempt to trace some of the influences of the book's critique of art on later aesthetic thinking. Greek text with facing translation, commentary and notes.
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( Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts...)
Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship, philosophical analysis, and the history of ideas--and ranging across discussion of poetry, painting, and music--Stephen Halliwell shows with a wealth of detail how mimesis, at all stages of its evolution, has been a more complex, variable concept than its conventional translation of "imitation" can now convey. Far from providing a static model of artistic representation, mimesis has generated many different models of art, encompassing a spectrum of positions from realism to idealism. Under the influence of Platonist and Aristotelian paradigms, mimesis has been a crux of debate between proponents of what Halliwell calls "world-reflecting" and "world-simulating" theories of representation in both the visual and musico-poetic arts. This debate is about not only the fraught relationship between art and reality but also the psychology and ethics of how we experience and are affected by mimetic art. Moving expertly between ancient and modern traditions, Halliwell contends that the history of mimesis hinges on problems that continue to be of urgent concern for contemporary aesthetics.
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Halliwell, Francis Stephen was born on October 18, 1953 in Wigan, Lancashire, England. Son of Francis and Joyce (Casey) Halliwell.
Bachelor, Oxford (England) University, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford (England) University, 1981.
Lecturer Worcester College, Oxford, 1977-1979, Jesus College, Oxford, 1979-1980, Westfield College, London, 1980-1982. Fellow Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1982-1984. Reader Birmingham (England) University, 1984-1995.
Professor Department Greek St. Andrews University, Scotland, since 1995. Visiting professor University Chicago, 1990, University Rome, 1998. Visiting faculty fellow University California-Riverside, 1993.
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Married Helen Ruth Gainford, August 19, 1978. Children: Luke Joseph, Edmund Benjamin Toby.