- 334 pages
- English
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Beginnings—
- 2 From Spontaneity to Automaticity: Polar (Opposite) Reversal at Statesman 269c–274d
- 3 Autochthony, Sexual Reproduction, and Political Life in the Statesman Myth
- 4 Where Have All the Shepherds Gone? Socratic Withdrawal in Plato’s Statesman
- 5 The Politics of Time: On the Relationship between Life and Law in Plato’s Statesman
- 6 A Little Move toward Greek Philosophy: Reassessing the Statesman Myth
- 7 Noêsis and Logos in the Eleatic Trilogy, with a Focus on the Visitor’s Jokes at Statesman 266a-d
- 8 Finding the Right Concepts: On Dialectics in Plato’s Statesman
- 9 Paradigm and Dialectical Inquiry in Plato’s Statesman
- 10 The Art of the Example in Plato’s Statesman
- 11 Reconsidering the Relations between the Statesman, the Philosopher, and the Sophist
- 12 Syngrammatology in Plato’s Statesman
- 13 Stranger than the Stranger: Axiothea
- 14 On Law and the Science of Politics in Plato’s Statesman
- 15 Adrift on the Boundless Sea of Unlikeness: Sophistry and Law in the Statesman
- 16 The Philosophers in Plato’s Trilogy
- 17 Transformations: Platonic Mythos and Plotinian Logos
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- English Index
- Greek Index
- Back Cover