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Rhapsody of Philosophy: Dialogues With Plato in Contemporary Thought (Literature and Philosophy) - Hardcover

Buch 4 von 6: Literature and Philosophy

Statkiewicz, Max

 
9780271035406: Rhapsody of Philosophy: Dialogues With Plato in Contemporary Thought (Literature and Philosophy)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0271035404 ISBN 13: 9780271035406
Verlag: Penn State University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This book proposes to rethink the relationship between philosophy and literature through an engagement with Plato&;s dialogues. The dialogues have been seen as the source of a long tradition that subordinates poetry to philosophy, but they may also be approached as a medium for understanding how to overcome this opposition. Paradoxically, Plato then becomes an ally in the attempt &;to overturn Platonism,&; which Gilles Deleuze famously defined as the task of modern philosophy. Max Statkiewicz identifies a &;rhapsodic mode&; initiated by Plato in the dialogues and pursued by many of his modern European commentators, including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Irigaray, Derrida, and Nancy. The book articulates this rhapsodic mode as a way of entering into true dialogue (dia-logos), which splits any univocal meaning and opens up a serious play of signification both within and between texts. This mode, he asserts, employs a reading of Plato that is distinguished from interpretations emphasizing the dialogues as a form of dogmatic treatise, as well as from the dramatic interpretations that have been explored in recent Plato scholarship&;both of which take for granted the modern notion of the subject. Statkiewicz emphasizes the importance of the dialogic nature of the rhapsodic mode in the play of philosophy and poetry, of Platonic and modern thought&;and, indeed, of seriousness and play. This highly original study of Plato explores the inherent possibilities of Platonic thought to rebound upon itself and engender further dialogues.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Max Statkiewicz is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin&;Madison.

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Verlag
Penn State University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0271035404
ISBN 13 
9780271035406
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Anzahl der Seiten
216
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