Missing Socrates : problems of Plato's writing / Jay Farness.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farness, Jay, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato. Dialogues.

Plato.

Socrates.

Plato--Writing skill.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 206 pages)

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1991]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plato's conversations of Socrates are among the most accessible philosophical texts most of us have ever read, yet the more one pursues the art or intelligibility of this writing, the more mysterious and paradoxical the Platonic texts become. What does it mean to study Plato, not philosophically as a maker of arguments, not poetically as a maker of dialogues, but literally as a maker of texts? This is a question that Jacques Derrida has made his own, and in this book Farness creates a dialogue with Derrida on Plato's texts.Missing Socrates also provides a dialogue between Plato and Socrates on the question of speech versus writing and a study of the materiality of Plato's writing. Included among the various dialogues and themes developed here are rhetoric and courtroom practice in the Apology of Socrates; religion, skepticism, and the idea of transcendence in the Euthyphro; artistic practice and tradition in the Ion; education and political discipline in the Charmides; and rhetoric, writing, commemoration, and the motives of authorship in Phaedrus. In each of these discursive settings, Socrates unsuccessfully seeks a place or a mode for philosophy; Farness shows that the dialogues of Plato uncannily supply that lack.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

One. A Preface to This Plato

Two. Missing Socrates

Three. Plato's Architexture

Four. Person, Tradition, Text in Ion

Five. Innocence and Experience in Chamides

Six. The Reproduction of Socrates in Phaedrus

Seven. Derrida in the Prescience of Plato

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271074894

0271074892

OCLC:

1305404467