COMIC SOCRATES? The Clouds, Taste, and Philosophy

dc.authorscopusid9335633100
dc.authorscopusid11440071200
dc.contributor.authorDiken, Bülent
dc.contributor.authorLaustsen, C.B.
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-19T15:05:20Z
dc.date.available2023-10-19T15:05:20Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.department-tempDiken, B., Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, United Kingdom, Department of Radio-TV, Kadir Has University, Turkey; Laustsen, C.B., Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmarken_US
dc.description.abstractIn the Clouds, Aristophanes apparently ridicules Socratic philosophy as a useless, essentially passive preoccupation, which, “twisted” in the wrong hands, can seriously harm the City. But such an instrumentalist reading of the Clouds (and of philosophy) misses a crucial point regarding the relation between philosophy and comedy. Insofar as philosophy, love of wisdom, is irreducible to wisdom — insofar as, in other words, philosophy is also a matter of taste (a concept which seeks to combine knowledge and pleasure) — the Clouds can be read as an ironic-comic defense of philosophy. To discuss this, the article reads the Clouds in the perspective of free use. This reading makes it possible to articulate two distinct but related senses of perverting philosophy, which are evidenced with material from within the play: the reduction of reason to instrumental reason and/or to state philosophy. To end with, the article discusses the relationship between comedy and philosophy in more general terms. © 2022 Duke University Press.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1215/17432197-9716296en_US
dc.identifier.endpage263en_US
dc.identifier.issn1743-2197
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
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dc.identifier.startpage247en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-9716296
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/4836
dc.identifier.volume18en_US
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dc.khas20231019-Scopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherDuke University Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofCultural Politicsen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectcomedyen_US
dc.subjectfree useen_US
dc.subjectinstrumental useen_US
dc.subjectmultitudeen_US
dc.subjectphilosophyen_US
dc.subjectstate of exceptionen_US
dc.titleCOMIC SOCRATES? The Clouds, Taste, and Philosophyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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