Ni de gré, ni de force : l’ensorcellement poétique, par-delà la dichotomie violence et persuasion dans la République
(2020) Etudes Platoniciennes — Vol. 19, n° 1, p. 1-19 (2020)
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- (en) The contrast between the two compliance devices that are violence and persuasion, is pivotal in Plato’s work and well acknowledged among scholars. Yet, the dichotomy of words and deeds too easily equates two forms of speech, which this paper intends to distinguish. A semantic and phonological analysis of a passage of the Republic (412c9-414a8) offers a chance to bring to light a third mean of coercion, besides sophistic persuasion and tyrannical violence. This third mean is the poetic enchantment. Its specificity lies in its double inscription in the realm of bodies and that of words. Indeed mimetic poetry performs, in addition to character and look, also nature — within body and mindset. So that, of all the athenian manipulators, poets are the most dangerous.
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Clemens, L. (2020). Ni de gré, ni de force : l’ensorcellement poétique, par-delà la dichotomie violence et persuasion dans la République. Etudes Platoniciennes, 19(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesplatoniciennes.1857 (Original work published 2020)