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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 452 S.).

ISBN: 978-0-511-48247-2

Content: This book attempts to bridge the gulf that still exists between 'literary' and 'philosophical' interpreters of Plato by looking at his use of characterization. Characterization is intrinsic to dramatic form and a concern with human character in an ethical sense pervades the dialogues on the discursive level. Form and content are further reciprocally related through Plato's discursive preoccupation with literary characterization. Two opening chapters examine the methodological issues involved in reading Plato 'as drama' and a set of questions surrounding Greek 'character' words (especially ethos), including ancient Greek views about the influence of dramatic character on an audience. The figure of Sokrates qua Platonic 'hero' also receives preliminary discussion. The remaining chapters offer close readings of select dialogues, chosen to show the wide range of ways in which Plato uses his characters, with special emphasis on the kaleidoscopic figure of Sokrates and on Plato's own relationship to his 'dramatic' hero

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). - Erscheinungsjahr des E-Books: 2009 , Drama and dialogue , Reading Plato , Plato the "dramatist" , Why dialogue form? , The imitation of character , "Character" , The Platonic Sokrates , Mimetic pedagogy , The elenctic Sokrates at work: Hippias Minor , The elenctic Sokrates , Hippias and Homer , Sokrates and Hippias , Rewriting Homer , A changing cast of characters: Republic , Socratic testing: three responses , Playing devil's advocate , Sokrates and the sons of Ariston , Self-censorship , Learning by example , Reproducing Sokrates: Theaetetus , Sokrates and the philosopher prince , Likeness , Difference , Cutting the cord , Becoming Sokrates , Putting Sokrates in his place: Sophist and Statesman , Plato's triad , The Man with No Name , Homogenized, pasteurized respondents , The visitor's pedagogy , Assaulting the father , A place for everything, and everything in its place , A word is worth a thousand pictures , The visitor and Sokrates , Silencing Sokrates

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-521-79300-1

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-521-03142-4

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 0-521-79300-9

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy , Ancient Studies

Keywords: v427-v347 Plato ; Drama ; Philosophie

DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511482472

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482472

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Format: XI, 452 S.

Edition: 1. publ.

ISBN: 0-521-79300-9

Content: "Despite the recent explosion of interest in alternative ways of reading Plato, a gulf still exists between "literary" and "philosophical" interpretations. This book attempts to bridge that division by focussing on Plato's use of characterization, which is both intrinsic to the "literary" questions raised by his use of dramatic form, and fundamental to his "philosophical" concern with moral character. Form and content are also reciprocally related through Plato's preoccupation with literary characterization on the discursive level. Two opening chapters examine the methodological issues involved in reading Plato "as drama," and other preliminary matters, including ancient Greek conceptions of "character," the figure of Sokrates qua "dramatic" hero, and the influence of literary characters on an audience. The rest of the book offers close readings of select dialogues, chosen to show the wide range of ways in which Plato uses his characters, with special attention to the kaleidoscopic figure of Sokrates."--BOOK JACKET.

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-511-48247-2

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy , Ancient Studies

Keywords: v427-v347 Plato ; Drama ; Philosophie