Art, Intellect and Politics: A Diachronic Perspective (Studies on the Interaction of Art, Thought and Power, 6). This item is unavailable.Art, Intellect and Politics: A Diachronic Perspective (Studies on the Interaction of Art, Thought and Power, 6)

The volume explores the relationship of artists and intellectuals from ancient Greece to modern times. Special attention is paid to Plato, Augustan poets (including the reception), Soviet art (Mayakowsky) and Jewish intellectuals. Non European contexts (China, Turkey) are treated as well.

Giusy Maria Ausilia Margagliotta graduated in Philosophy from the University of San Raffaele (Milano). She has published a book on the daimonion of Socrates and is preparing a doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg.

Andrea Aldo Robiglio is Professor for Renaissance Philosophy at the KU Leuven. His major research interests are Dante, Thomas Aquinas and scholasticism in Renaissance Philosophy. From 2007 to 2009 he has been an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the University of Freiburg. His publications include: L'impossibile volere: Tommaso d'Aquino, i tomisti e la volontà (Mailand 2002) and La sopravvivevanza e la gloria (Bologna 2008).