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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Tae-Yeoun Keum (Political Science) and Andrew Norris (Political Science) about Keum’s new book\, Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought. Audience Q&A will follow. \nPlato’s use of myths—the Myth of Metals\, the Myth of Er—sits uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational philosophy. Since the Enlightenment\, interpreters like Hegel have sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato’s myths as mere regrettable embellishments\, irrelevant to his main enterprise. Others\, such as Karl Popper\, have railed against the deceptive power of myth\, concluding that a tradition built on Platonic foundations can be neither rational nor desirable. \nTae-Yeoun Keum challenges the premise underlying both of these positions. She argues that myth is neither irrelevant nor inimical to the ideal of rational progress. She tracks the influence of Plato’s dialogues through the early modern period and on to the twentieth century\, showing how pivotal figures in the history of political thought—More\, Bacon\, Leibniz\, the German Idealists\, Cassirer\, and others—have been inspired by Plato’s mythmaking. She finds that Plato’s followers perennially raised the possibility that there is a vital role for myth in rational political thinking. \nTae-Yeoun Keum is Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSB and was previously the Christopher Tower Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church\, Oxford. She is a political theorist broadly interested in ancient political thought and its reception\, 20th century German social thought\, and the intersection of political theory and literature. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review and History of Political Thought. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-plato-and-the-mythic-tradition-in-political-thought/
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CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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