- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Sonnet for Harry on the Occasion of His Celebration in the year 2006 In Columbia S. Carolina
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Enlisting in Harry Berger's Imaginary Forces -
Chapter 2 Harry Berger and Self-Hatred -
Chapter 3 Complicity and Catharsis: the Immature Criticism of Harry Berger -
Chapter 4 Sack Drama -
Chapter 5 Redistributing Complicities in an Age of Digital Production: Michael Radford's Film Version of The Merchant of Venice -
Chapter 6 Acrasian Fantasies: Outsides, Insides, Upsides, Downsides in the Bower of Bliss -
Chapter 7 Harry Berger's Genius: Porting Pleasure in the Bower of Bliss -
Chapter 8 Taking Another Peek -
Chapter 9 Close Reading Transformed: The New Criticism and the World -
Chapter 10 Thinking Culture, and Beyond -
Chapter 11 Bergerama: New Critical and Poststructural Theory in the Work of Harry Berger, Jr. -
Chapter 12 The Power of Prodigality in the Work of Derek Walcott and Harry Berger -
Chapter 13 Harry Berger's Sprezzatura and the Poses of Cicero's De Oratore -
Chapter 14 What Art Historians Can Learn from Harry -
Chapter 15 Platonic Irony in Berger -
Chapter 16 Situating Harry's Plato -
Chapter 17 The Seminal and the Inimitable: An Adventure in Harryland -
Chapter 18 How Harry Taught -
Chapter 19 Harry Berger's Intellectual Community -
Chapter 20 Backlooping: Life in a Revisionary Enclave - Bio-bibliography
- Contributors
- Select Publications Index
- Index
Platonic Irony in Berger
Platonic Irony in Berger
- Chapter:
- (p.215) Chapter 15 Platonic Irony in Berger
- Source:
- A Touch More Rare
- Author(s):
Nina Levine
David Lee Miller
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
There is Socratic irony and there is structural irony in Plato, and the structural irony is more important. This is difficult for some to accept, because it involves irony beyond an intentionality of Socrates and the reassuring poise of his disingenuousness or understatement. Or it involves Plato not talking straight in legible, “mimetic” portrayals of sometimes ironic Socratic discourse. Socrates' Platonistic apologists downplay such phenomena, but it is hard to ignore how Plato works at situational ironies that Socrates keenly feels but is powerless to amend. This book by Plato is a kind of certainty we have but that Socrates, who can only vaguely and futilely threaten a historic backlash to his death, does not enjoy. In this book, this third way of the afterlife, Socrates is both annihilated and transmigrated — aufgehoben.
Keywords: Socrates, Plato, irony, Socratic, Platonistic, afterlife, aufgehoben, annihilated, transmigrated
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Sonnet for Harry on the Occasion of His Celebration in the year 2006 In Columbia S. Carolina
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Enlisting in Harry Berger's Imaginary Forces -
Chapter 2 Harry Berger and Self-Hatred -
Chapter 3 Complicity and Catharsis: the Immature Criticism of Harry Berger -
Chapter 4 Sack Drama -
Chapter 5 Redistributing Complicities in an Age of Digital Production: Michael Radford's Film Version of The Merchant of Venice -
Chapter 6 Acrasian Fantasies: Outsides, Insides, Upsides, Downsides in the Bower of Bliss -
Chapter 7 Harry Berger's Genius: Porting Pleasure in the Bower of Bliss -
Chapter 8 Taking Another Peek -
Chapter 9 Close Reading Transformed: The New Criticism and the World -
Chapter 10 Thinking Culture, and Beyond -
Chapter 11 Bergerama: New Critical and Poststructural Theory in the Work of Harry Berger, Jr. -
Chapter 12 The Power of Prodigality in the Work of Derek Walcott and Harry Berger -
Chapter 13 Harry Berger's Sprezzatura and the Poses of Cicero's De Oratore -
Chapter 14 What Art Historians Can Learn from Harry -
Chapter 15 Platonic Irony in Berger -
Chapter 16 Situating Harry's Plato -
Chapter 17 The Seminal and the Inimitable: An Adventure in Harryland -
Chapter 18 How Harry Taught -
Chapter 19 Harry Berger's Intellectual Community -
Chapter 20 Backlooping: Life in a Revisionary Enclave - Bio-bibliography
- Contributors
- Select Publications Index
- Index
