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Plato's Statesman: Dialectic, Myth, and Politics

Plato's Statesman: Dialectic, Myth, and Politics

Sallis, John

Paperback

Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1438464088
ISBN13: 9781438464084
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2018
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Explores the interplay between the dramatic form of the dialogue and the basic themes it addresses.

The Statesman is among the most widely ranging of Plato's dialogues, bringing together in a single discourse disparate subjects such as politics, mathematics, ontology, dialectic, and myth. The essays in this collection consider these subjects and others, focusing in particular on the dramatic form of the dialogue. They take into account not only what is said but also how it is said, by whom and to whom it is said, and when and where it is said. In this way, the contributors approach the text in a manner that responds to the dialogue itself rather than bringing preconceived questions and scholarly debates to bear on it. The essays are especially attuned to the comedic elements that run through much of the dialogue and that are played out in a way that reveals the subject of the comedy. In the Statesman, these comedies reach their climax when the statesman becomes a participant in a comedy of animals and thereby is revealed in his true nature.

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