TY - BOOK AU - Berger,Harry AU - Project Muse TI - The perils of uglytown: studies in structural misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt SN - 9780823250264 AV - B808 .P475 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Art, Renaissance KW - Philosophy, Ancient KW - Alienation (Philosophy) KW - Plato KW - Structural anthropology KW - Electronic Books N1 - 1; Front ; Contents; Contents; Preface; A Polar Model of Culture Change; The Discourse of Pleonexia; Dying Angry; More Than a Talking Head; The Perils of Uglytown; Adeimantus and Glaucon; Four Virtues in the; (1) Wisdom; Four Virtues in the; (2) Courage, The Well-Born Lye; Four Virtues in the; (3) Temperance; Four Virtues in the Republic: (4) Justice; Apprehension in the; Cybernetic Alienation; Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo's Cave; Prospero's Humiliation; The Drama of Competitive Posing; Notes; Index; 2; b N2 - "The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters of the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands"-- UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1046927&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -