Plato's Dialectic at Play
The Symposium is one of Platoas most accessible dialogues, an engrossing historical document as well as an entertaining literary masterpiece. By uncovering the structural design of the dialogue, Platoas Dialectic at Play aims at revealing a Plato for whom the dialogical form was not merely ornamentation or philosophical methodology but the essence of philosophical exploration. His dialectic is not only argument; it is also play. Careful analysis of each layer of the text leads cumulatively to a picture of the dialogueas underlying structure, related to both argument and myth, and shows that a dynamic link exists between Diotimaas higher mysteries and the organization of the dialogue as a whole. On this basis the authors argue that the Symposium, with its positive theory of art contained in the ascent to the Beautiful, may be viewed as a companion piece to the Republic, with its negative critique of the role of art in the context of the Good. Following Nietzscheas suggestion and applying criteria developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, they further argue for seeing the Symposium as the first novel. The book concludes with a comprehensive reevaluation of the significance of the Symposium and its place in Platoas thought generally, touching on major issues in Platonic scholarship: the nature of art, the body-soul connection, the problem of identity, the relationship between mythos and logos, Platonic love, and the question of authorial writing and the vanishing signature of the absent Plato himself.Phoenix, Supplement 6. Toronto: University of ... Unpopular Essays. New York: Simon and Schuster. Russon, John, and John Sallis. 2000a. Retracing the Platonic Text. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. aaa. 2000b. aWe Sense Thatanbsp;...
| Title | : | Plato's Dialectic at Play |
| Author | : | Kevin Corrigan, Elena Glazov-Corrigan |
| Publisher | : | Penn State Press - 2005-01-17 |
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