Missing Socrates: Problems of Plato's Writing - Hardcover

Farness, Jay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0271007222 ISBN 13: 9780271007229

Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

Plato's conversations of Socrates are among the most accessible philosophical texts most of us have ever read, yet the more one pursues the art or intelligibility of this writing, the more mysterious and paradoxical the Platonic texts become. What does it mean to study Plato, not philosophically as a maker of arguments, not poetically as a maker of dialogues, but literally as a maker of texts? This is a question that Jacques Derrida has made his own, and in this book Farness creates a dialogue with Derrida on Plato's texts.

Missing Socrates also provides a dialogue between Plato and Socrates on the question of speech versus writing and a study of the materiality of Plato's writing. Included among the various dialogues and themes developed here are rhetoric and courtroom practice in the Apology of Socrates; religion, skepticism, and the idea of transcendence in the Euthyphro; artistic practice and tradition in the Ion; education and political discipline in the Charmides; and rhetoric, writing, commemoration, and the motives of authorship in Phaedrus. In each of these discursive settings, Socrates unsuccessfully seeks a place or a mode for philosophy; Farness shows that the dialogues of Plato uncannily supply that lack.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jay Farness is Associate Professor of English at Northern Arizona University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0271007222
• ISBN 13: 9780271007229
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar