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Plato's Dialectic at Play
2015,2004
Overview
The Symposium is one of Plato's most accessible
dialogues, an engrossing historical document as well as an
entertaining literary masterpiece. By uncovering the structural
design of the dialogue, Plato's Dialectic at Play aims at
revealing a Plato for whom the dialogical form was not merely
ornamentation or philosophical methodology but the essence of
philosophical exploration. His dialectic is not only argument; it
is also play.
Careful analysis of each layer of the text leads cumulatively to
a picture of the dialogue's underlying structure, related to both
argument and myth, and shows that a dynamic link exists between
Diotima's higher mysteries and the organization of the dialogue as
a whole. On this basis the authors argue that the
Symposium , with its positive theory of art contained in
the ascent to the Beautiful, may be viewed as a companion piece to
the Republic , with its negative critique of the role of
art in the context of the Good. Following Nietzsche's suggestion
and applying criteria developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, they further
argue for seeing the Symposium as the first novel.
The book concludes with a comprehensive reevaluation of the
significance of the Symposium and its place in Plato's
thought generally, touching on major issues in Platonic
scholarship: the nature of art, the body-soul connection, the
problem of identity, the relationship between mythos and
logos, Platonic love, and the question of authorial writing and the
vanishing signature of the absent Plato himself.
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780271024622, 0271024623
