The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato

Herausgeber: Press, Gerald A; Duque, Mateo

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Produktbeschreibung

This essential reference text on the life, thought and writings of Plato uses over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topics for both the first-time student and seasoned scholar of Plato and ancient philosophy. It is organized into five parts illuminating Plato's life, the whole of the Dialogues attributed to him, the Dialogues' literary features, the concepts and themes explored within them and Plato's reception via his influence on subsequent philosophers and the various interpretations of his work. This fully updated 2nd edition includes 19 newly commissioned entries on topics ranging across comedy, tragedy, Xenophon, metatheatre, gender, musical theory, animals, Orphism, political theory, religion, time, Hellenistic philosophy and post-Platonic ancient commentaries. It also features revisions to the majority of articles from the 1st edition, including 8 which have been completely re-written, and 12 which have had the references substantially revised. Reflecting the growing diversity of Plato scholarship across the world, this edition includes contributions from a wide range of scholars who enrich the field and provide students and scholars with a vital resource for study and reference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 169mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350227231
• ISBN-10: 1350227234
• Artikelnr.: 63564272

Autorenporträt

Gerald A. Press was Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA. Mateo Duque is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Dialogue Abbreviations How to
Use This Book Introduction 1. PLATO'S LIFE, HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND
PHILOSOPHIC CONTEXT Plato's life Aristophanes and intellectuals Comedy
Education Eleatics Isocrates and logography Orality and literacy Poetry
(epic and lyric) Pre-socratic philosophers Pythagoreans Rhetoric and
speechmaking Socrates (historical) Socratics (other than Plato) The
Sophists Xenophon 2. THE DIALOGUES The Platonic corpus and manuscript
tradition Alcibiades 1 The Apology of Socrates Charmides Clitophon
Cratylus Crito Dubia and Spuria (Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Minos, Rival
Lovers, Axiochus, Definitions, On Justice, On Virtue, Demodocus, Eryxias,
Sisyphus) Epinomis Euthydemus Euthyphro Gorgias Hippias Major Hippias Minor
Ion Laches Laws Letters Lysis Menexenus Meno Parmenides Phaedo Phaedrus
Philebus Politicus (Statesman) Protagoras Republic Sophist Symposium
Theaetetus Theages Timaeus and Critias 3. IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE
DIALOGUES Anonymity Characters Comedy Drama History Emotions (pathe, path
emata) Humour Irony Language Literary composition Musical structure Myth (
muthos) Pedagogical structure Pedimental structure Play (paidia) Proleptic
composition Reading order Socrates (the character) Tragedy 4. CONCEPTS,
THEMES AND TOPICS TREATED IN THE DIALOGUES Account (see Logos) Aesthetics
Akrasia (incontinence, weakness of will) Animals Antilogy and eristic
Aporia Appearance and reality Argument (see Logos) Art (techne) Beauty (
kalon) Being and becoming (on, onta; gignesthai) Cause (aitia) Cave, the
allegory of the Character City (polis) Convention (see Law) Cosmos (kosmos
) Cross-examination (see Elenchus) Daimon Death Definition (see Logos)
Desire (appetite, epithumia) Dialectic (dialektike) The divided line
Education Elenchus (cross-examination, refutation) Epistemology (knowledge)
Eristic (see Antilogy and Eristics) Eros (see Love) Eschatology Ethics
Eudaimonia (see Happiness) Excellence (virtue, arete?) Forms (eidos, idea)
Friendship (philia) Gender Goodness (the good, Agathon) Happiness (
eudaimonia) Hermeneutics Idea (see forms) Image (eikon) Imitation (see Mim
esis) Incontinence (see Akrasia) Inspiration Intellectualism Justice (
dikaion, dikaiosune) Knowledge (see Epistemology) Language Law, convention
(nomos) Logic Logos (account, argument, definition) Love (eros) Madness and
possession Mathematics (mathematike) Medicine (iatrike) Metaphysics (see
Ontology) Metatheatre Method Mimesis (imitation) Music Mysteries Myth (
muthos) Nature (phusis) Nomos (see Law) Non-propositional knowledge The one
(to hen) Ontology (metaphysics) Orphism Paiderastia (pederasty)
Participation Perception and sensation (aisthesis, aisthanomai) Philosophy
and the philosopher Phusis (see Nature) Piety (eusebeia, hosios) Pleasure (
hedone) Poetry (poiesis) Politics and the (figure of the) Politicus
Reality (see Appearance and reality) Reason Recollection (anamnesis)
Refutation (see Elenchus) Rhetoric (rhetorike) Self-knowledge Sensation
(see Perception and sensation) The Sophists Soul (psyche) The sun simile
Theology Time Virtue (see Excellence) Vision Weakness of will (see Akrasia
) Women Writing 5. LATER RECEPTION, INTERPRETATION AND INFLUENCE OF PLATO
AND THE DIALOGUES Section A: Plato in the Ancient World Ancient
hermeneutics Aristotle Academy of Athens, ancient history of Jewish
Platonism (ancient) Neoplatonism and its diaspora Section B: Plato in the
Middle Ages and Renaissance Medieval Islamic Platonism Medieval Jewish
Platonism Medieval Christian Platonism Renaissance Platonism The Cambridge
Platonists Section C: Plato in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy Early
modern philosophy from Descartes to Berkeley Nineteenth-century German
idealism Nineteenth-century Plato scholarship Developmentalism
Compositional chronology Analytic approaches to Plato Vlastosian approaches
Continental approaches Straussian readings of Plato Plato's unwritten
doctrines Esotericism The Tübingen approach Anti-Platonism, from ancient to
modern References Index