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Title: Love, Knowledge, and Discourse in Plato: Dialogue and Dialectic in Phaedrus, Republic, Parmenides (Midway Reprints Series)
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Manufacturer: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx)
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| Love, Knowledge, and Discourse in Plato: Dialogue and Dialectic in Phaedrus, Republic, Parmenides (Midway Reprints Series) by Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx) In a word: wow. | | I am not a classicist or a Plato scholar but with that proviso in place: I first read Prof. Sinaiko's text while finishing the PhD coursework for my doctorate in philosophy. Sinaiko's interpretation of the Cave Allegory opened my eyes to the depths of Plato's work in ways no other text has -- before or since. [Hadot's work on Socrates, greatly to be admired, is probably the closest thing I've seen in recent years.] Sinaiko's treatment of love and dialectic made whole swaths of Plato transparent to me for the first time. Much of it dovetails beautifully into notions of Socratic method as therapeutic and, for instance, Derrida's discussion of philosophy as pharmakon. Anyway, all of this created a lasting effect on my own appropriation of dialectical methodologies in areas as diverse as Hegel and environmental ethics. So, wahoo. Buy this book. |
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