Reading Plato / Thomas A. Szlezak ; translated by Graham Zanker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szlezák, Thomas Alexander.

Standardized Title:

Platon lesen. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Dialogues.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (117 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues which will be invaluable to any student of Plato's philosophy

Contents:

BOOKCOVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 THE JOY OF READING PLATO; 2 THE READER PARTICIPATES; 3 AN EXAMPLE OF INDIVIDUAL RECEPTION; 4 POSSIBLE MISTAKEN ATTITUDES ON THE PART OF THE READER; 5 ONE DOES NOT SEE WHAT ONE DOES NOT KNOW; 6 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PLATONIC DIALOGUES; 7 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS; 8 FOR WHOM IS PLATO WRITING?; 9 DOES A PLATONIC DIALOGUE SPEAK WITH SEVERAL VOICES?; 10 AN ANCIENT THEORY OF INTERPRETATION; 11 THE INTERPRETATION OF SIMONIDES IN THE PROTAGORAS; 12 THE CRITIQUE OF WRITING IN THE PHAEDRUS

13 THE DEFINITION OF THE PHILOSOPHER BASED ON HIS RELATIONSHIP TO HIS WRITINGS14 THE MEANING OF TIMI?TEPA; 15 'SUPPORT FOR THE LOGOS' IN THE DIALOGUES; 16 THE ASCENT TO THE PRINCIPLES AND THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHICAL COMMUNICATION; 17 SOME 'GAPS'; 18 THE DOCTRINE OF ANAMNESIS AND DIALECTIC IN THE EUTHYDEMUS; 19 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ALLUSIONS FOR READING PLATO; 20 PLATO'S DRAMATIC TECHNIQUE; 21 IRONY; 22 MYTH; 23 MONOLOGUE AND DIALOGUE WITH IMAGINARY PARTNERS; 24 THE CHARAC

Notes:

Originally published: Platon lesen. Stuttgart : Verlag frommann-holzboog, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-130) and index.

ISBN:

9786610253623

9781134656493

1134656491

9781134656509

1134656505

9781280253621

1280253622

9780203981009

0203981006

OCLC:

299571258