Lecture on Tragic Mimesis in Plato and Aristotle
(part of the educational-scientific series “The Literacy of Knowledge”)
What role does mimesis (imitation) play in politics and rhetoric according to Plato and Aristotle?
We will read and discuss selected fragments from:
Plato: Apology of Socrates, Gorgias, Phaedrus, Republic, Laws, Letters
Aristotle: Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics