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Platon, Oeuvres Completes. Tome V, 2e Partie: Cratyle
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ISBN10: 2251002197
ISBN13: 9782251002194
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Jan 1 1931
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782251002194
Publisher: Les Belles Lettres
Published: Jan 1 1931
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: French
Il n'est pas de dialogue de Platon qui ait suscite chez les modernes plus de discussions que Cratyle. Quel est le but de ce dialogue ? Quelle conception de langage en decoule ? Contre quelles ecoles le texte s'erige-t-il ?. Autant de questions qui divisent la critique et rendent la lecture de ce dialogue passionnante. Cratyle a l'image du langage dont il traite est inepuisable et se termine justement par la promesse d'un nouvel entretien entre les trois protagonistes Socrate, Hermogene et Cratyle, disciple d'Heraclite qui fut sans doute l'un des maitres de Platon. Y a-t-il une justesse des noms comme le soutient Cratyle ou bien le langage est-il une convention arbitraire ? Socrate devrait trancher, mais prefere eviter le dogmatisme et se contente de montrer les apories des deux theories, usant en maitre des armes du langage, depuis les etymologies jusqu'a la parodie en passant par l'ironie.
Notre edition presente a part ce dialogue particulierement riche tant sur le plan litteraire que sur le plan philosophique. La notice introductive propose un resume general du propos, nourrie de judicieuses pistes de lecture. Les protagonistes et leurs modeles historiques vraisemblables sont analyses, tandis que le dialogue est ressaisi sur la pensee de Platon. Les hypotheses sur la datation sont discutees et argumentees. Le dialogue se situerait entre Le Banquet et Euthydeme, c'est-a-dire entre 386 et 385. Les nombreuses allusions litteraires, a Homere notamment, sont expliquees et developpees. Des notes eclairent la lecture.
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