Plato's Statesman : dialectic, myth, and politics / edited by John Sallis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sallis, John, 1938-2025, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Statesman.

Plato.

Plato--Political and social views.

Statesman (Plato).

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

vii, 326 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

The Statesman is among the most widely ranging of Plato's dialogues, bringing together in a single discourse disparate subjects such as politics, mathematics, ontology, dialectic, and myth. The essays in this collection consider these subjects and others, focusing in particular on the dramatic form of the dialogue. They take into account not only what is said but also how it is said, by whom and to whom it is said, and when and where it is said. In this way, the contributors approach the text in a manner that responds to the dialogue itself rather than bringing preconceived questions and scholarly debates to bear on it. The essays are especially attuned to the comedic elements that run through much of the dialogue and that are played out in a way that reveals the subject of the comedy. In the Statesman, these comedies reach their climax when the statesman becomes a participant in a comedy of animals and thereby is revealed in his true nature. Book jacket.

Contents:

Beginnings / John Sallis

From spontaneity to automaticity : polar (opposite) reversal at statesman 269c-274d / Micheal Nass

Autochthony, sexual reproduction, and political life in the statesman myth / Sara Brill

Where have all the shepherds gone? : Socratic withdrawal in Plato's Statesman / S. Montgomery Ewegen

The politics of time : on the relationship between life and law in Plato's Statesman / Walter A. Brogan

A little move toward Greek philosophy : reassessing the statesman myth / Nickolas Pappas

Noêsis and logos in the eleatic trilogy, with a focus on the visitor's jokes at Statesman 266AD / Mitchell Miller

Finding the right concepts : on dialectics in Plato's statesman / Günter Figal

Paradigm and dialectical inquiry in Plato's statesman / Eric Sanday

The art of the example in Plato's Statesman / James Risser

Reconsidering the relations between the Statesman, the philosopher, and the sophist / Noburu Notomi

Syngrammatology in Plato's Statesman / Robert Metcalf

Stranger than the stranger : Axiothea / Drew A. Hyland

On law and the science of politics in Plato's Statesman / Robert C. Bartlett

Adrift on the boundless sea of unlikeness : sophistry and law

In the statesman / Rayan Drake

The philosophers in plato's trilogy / Burt C. Hopkins

Transformations : platonic mythos and plotinian logos / Gary M. Gurtler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Plato's Statesman.

ISBN:

9781438464091

1438464096

OCLC:

961800743