Post-Colonial Dramaturgical Reflections on the Fate of Athenian Democracy (The Cave of the Philosophers by Zbigniev Herbert and Hemlock for Socrates by Valery Gerasimchuk)

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The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the dramaturgical image of Socrates as a measure of the values of democracy in the plays of Polish playwright Herbert Zbigniew The Cave of the Philosophers and Ukrainian playwright Valery Gerasymchuk’s Hemlock for Socrates. It is proved that both playwrights make the image of Socrates a key for philosophical reflections not only about human life and death, but primarily about the fate and prospects of democracy in post-totalitarian Europe.

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Socrates, the image of democracy, the myth of the cave, protagonist, dialogue



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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