Retracing The Platonic Text

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Retracing The Platonic Text

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Author : John Russon
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2000

Retracing The Platonic Text written by John Russon and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Philosophy categories.

Written from a Continental perspective, Retracing the Platonic Text reveals dimensions of the dialogues that are not addressed by traditional philosophy. These essays by prominent scholars focus on the texts' literary elements, in particular challenges to contemporary interpretations of the Platonic dialogue as a whole. The result illustrates the depth of Platonic thought and the debt of all philosophy to it. Retracing the Platonic Text is a pioneering effort in demonstrating how Continental philosophy both reflects and expands upon Greek philosophy.

Plato S Cratylus

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Author : S. Montgomery Ewegen
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-14

Plato S Cratylus written by S. Montgomery Ewegen and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with Philosophy categories.

Plato's dialogue Cratylus focuses on being and human dependence on words, or the essential truths about the human condition. Arguing that comedy is an essential part of Plato's concept of language, S. Montgomery Ewegen asserts that understanding the comedic is key to an understanding of Plato's deeper philosophical intentions. Ewegen shows how Plato's view of language is bound to comedy through words and how, for Plato, philosophy has much in common with playfulness and the ridiculous. By tying words, language, and our often uneasy relationship with them to comedy, Ewegen frames a new reading of this notable Platonic dialogue.

Platonic Writings Platonic Readings

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Author : Charles L. Griswold Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01

Platonic Writings Platonic Readings written by Charles L. Griswold Jr. and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Philosophy categories.

The Ontology Of Socratic Questioning In Plato S Early Dialogues

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Author : Sean D. Kirkland
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-10-11

The Ontology Of Socratic Questioning In Plato S Early Dialogues written by Sean D. Kirkland and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-11 with Philosophy categories.

Winner of the 2013 Symposium Book Award, presented by the Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy Modern interpreters of Plato's Socrates have generally taken the dialogues to be aimed at working out objective truth. Attending closely to the texts of the early dialogues and the question of virtue in particular, Sean D. Kirkland suggests that this approach is flawed—that such concern with discovering external facts rests on modern assumptions that would have been far from the minds of Socrates and his contemporaries. This isn't, however, to accuse Socrates of any kind of relativism. Through careful analysis of the original Greek and of a range of competing strands of Plato scholarship, Kirkland instead brings to light a radical, proto-phenomenological Socrates, for whom "what virtue is" is what has always already appeared as virtuous in everyday experience of the world, even if initial appearances are unsatisfactory or obscure and in need of greater scrutiny and clarification.

Plato S Laws

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Author : Gregory Recco
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-18

Plato S Laws written by Gregory Recco and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-18 with Philosophy categories.

Readers of Plato have often neglected the Laws because of its length and density. In this set of interpretive essays, notable scholars of the Laws from the fields of classics, history, philosophy, and political science offer a collective close reading of the dialogue "book by book" and reflect on the work as a whole. In their introduction, editors Gregory Recco and Eric Sanday explore the connections among the essays and the dramatic and productive exchanges between the contributors. This volume fills a major gap in studies on Plato's dialogues by addressing the cultural and historical context of the Laws and highlighting their importance to contemporary scholarship.

Of Myth Life And War In Plato S Republic

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Author : Claudia Baracchi
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-10

Of Myth Life And War In Plato S Republic written by Claudia Baracchi and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-10 with Philosophy categories.

"Baracchi has identified pivotal points around which the Republic operates; this allows a reading of the entire text to unfold.... a very beautifully written book." -- Walter Brogan "... a work that opens new and timely vistas within the Republic.... Her approach... is thorough and rigorous." -- John Sallis Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work remains obscure and enigmatic. To fully understand and appreciate its meaning, she argues, we must attend to what its original language discloses. Through a close reading of the Greek text, attentive to the pervasiveness of story and myth, Baracchi investigates the dialogue's major themes. The first part of the book addresses issues of generation, reproduction, and decay as they apply to the founding of Socrates' just city. The second part takes up the connection between war and the cycle of life, employing a thorough analysis of Plato's rendition of the myth of Er. Baracchi shows that the Republic is concerned throughout with the complex but intertwined issues of life and war, locating the site of this tangled web of growth and destruction in the mythical dimension of the Platonic city.

Poetic Justice

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Author : Jill Frank
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-01-26

Poetic Justice written by Jill Frank and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-26 with Political Science categories.

When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato’s dialogs as written texts to be read and reread. At the center of these insights are two distinct ways of learning to read in the dialogs. One approach that appears in the Statesman, Sophist, and Protagoras, treats learning to read as a top-down affair, in which authoritative teachers lead students to true beliefs. Another, recommended by Socrates, encourages trial and error and the formation of beliefs based on students’ own fallible experiences. In all of these dialogs, learning to read is likened to coming to know or understand something. Given Plato’s repeated presentation of the analogy between reading and coming to know, what can these two approaches tell us about his dialogs’ representations of philosophy and politics? With Poetic Justice, Jill Frank overturns the conventional view that the Republic endorses a hierarchical ascent to knowledge and the authoritarian politics associated with that philosophy. When learning to read is understood as the passive absorption of a teacher’s beliefs, this reflects the account of Platonic philosophy as authoritative knowledge wielded by philosopher kings who ruled the ideal city. When we learn to read by way of the method Socrates introduces in the Republic, Frank argues, we are offered an education in ethical and political self-governance, one that prompts citizens to challenge all claims to authority, including those of philosophy.

The Birth Of Territory

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Author : Stuart Elden
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-09-09

The Birth Of Territory written by Stuart Elden and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-09 with History categories.

Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory. Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts such as sovereignty, rights, and justice. While territory continues to matter politically, and territorial disputes and arrangements are studied in detail, the concept of territory itself is often neglected today. Where did the idea of exclusive ownership of a portion of the earth’s surface come from, and what kinds of complexities are hidden behind that seemingly straightforward definition? The Birth of Territory provides a detailed account of the emergence of territory within Western political thought. Looking at ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and early modern thought, Stuart Elden examines the evolution of the concept of territory from ancient Greece to the seventeenth century to determine how we arrived at our contemporary understanding. Elden addresses a range of historical, political, and literary texts and practices, as well as a number of key players—historians, poets, philosophers, theologians, and secular political theorists—and in doing so sheds new light on the way the world came to be ordered and how the earth’s surface is divided, controlled, and administered. “The Birth of Territory is an outstanding scholarly achievement . . . a book that already promises to become a ‘classic’ in geography, together with very few others published in the past decades.” —Political Geography “An impressive feat of erudition.” —American Historical Review

Women S Work As Political Art

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Author : Lisa Pace Vetter
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2005-01-01

Women S Work As Political Art written by Lisa Pace Vetter and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Philosophy categories.

This book shows that the metaphor of the quintessentially feminine art of weaving in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Lysistrata, and Plato's Statesman and Phaedo conveys complex and inclusive teachings about human nature and political life that address the concerns of women more effectively than commonly believed.

Plato S Critique Of Impure Reason

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Author : D. C. Schindler
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2008

Plato S Critique Of Impure Reason written by D. C. Schindler and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Philosophy categories.

Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center of which lies a novel reading of the historical person of Socrates as the "real image" of the good