The Perils of Uglytown Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt
ISBN: 9780823245161 | 0823245160
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Fordham University Press
Pub. Date: 1/1/2014
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In The Perils of Uglytown, Harry Berger, Jr., considers a variety of texts and images ranging from Thucydides and Plato to Shakespeare and Rembrandt. The Introduction explains the key concept of the study, structural misanthropology, a variant on Claude Lvi-Strauss's idea of structural anthropology. Part 1 explores its activity in several Platonic dialogues: Lysis, Crito, Phaedo, The Republic, and Timaeus. Part 2 turns to the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands. Structural misanthropology is discussed first in the work of several... MORE
Harry Berger, Jr. , is Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His most recent books include Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance; Situated Utterances: Texts, Bodies, and Cultural Representations; Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief: Rembrandt's "Night Watch" and Other Dutch Group Portraits; and Caterpillage: Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting (the last three from Fordham).
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