Troubling play : meaning and entity in Plato's Parmenides / Kelsey Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Kelsey, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectic.

Ontology.

Plato. Parmenides.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Troubling Play is a new and illuminating interpretation of Plato's Parmenides—notoriously the most difficult of the dialogues. Showing that the Parmenides is an inquiry into time and the forms of language, author Kelsey Wood notes that the dialogue's suggestion of sophistry is intended to provoke the silently observant Socrates. The young Socrates believes that knowing is prior to existence, but Parmenides ultimately shows him that the meaning of intelligible discourse is derived from existence in time. Although we cannot think apart from intelligible forms, nevertheless, any number of modes of intelligibility are possible. This relation of ideals of intelligibility—the forms of logos—to temporal being is a crucial topic of special relevance to philosophers today.Wood's detailed methodological analysis ties the Parmenides to other later dialogues such as the Sophist, Theatetus, and Philebus, and also to earlier works such as the Republic and the poem of Parmenides.

Contents:

Troubling play

Logos and existence in The Parmenides

The game begins

From irony to comedy

If the all is a many, change is impossible

The fourth and fifth beginnings : the many

Denouement : if the one is not.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.

ISBN:

9780791482940

0791482944

9781423747734

1423747739

OCLC:

461442879