Exiling the Poets

Preface
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
The Other Side of Censorship: Literature on Trial
1. The "Miserable Inventions" of Poets
"And There Will Be Poets"
A Tradition of Poetic Truth Tellers
Behind the Veil of Censorship
2. New Songs Are Best
Socrates' "Homericide"
"They Could Be Heroes": The Guardians' Poetic Education
Another Way to Sing a Song: Student, Rhapsodist, and Poet
3. The Making of the Poet's Image
From Identity to Difference
The Philosopher on the Couch: From Creators to Imitators
Dangerous Mimetic Images and Artists
Finally, the Poet
4. The Death of Poetry, the Poetry of Death
Eternal Returns
The Civil War of the Divided Soul
Enslaving Reason: Sympathy for the Other
Conclusion: A Myth to End . . . All Myths
Innovative Action and Conservative Reaction
Production, Repression, and Self-Subversion
Notes
Bibliography
Index