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Reading Plato

Thomas a Szlezák author Graham Zanker translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:4th Mar '99

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Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues, providing an invaluable text for any student of Plato's philosophy.
Taking as a starting point the critique of writing in the Phaedrus -- where Socrates argues that a book cannot choose its reader nor can it defend itself against misinterpretation -- Reading Plato offers solutions to the problems of interpreting the dialogues. In this ground-breaking book, Thomas A. Szlezak persuasively argues that the dialogues are designed to stimulate philosophical enquiry and to elevate philosophy to the realm of oral dialectic.

'An English translation of this splendid book is long overdue.' - Greece and Rome

ISBN: 9780415189835

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 294g

152 pages