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The play of character in Plato's Dialogues /

This book provides an interpretation of Plato in general, and several dialogues in particular, from the point of view of dramatic characterization. It aims to show traditional 'analytical' philosophical interpreters the significance of such 'literary' features for understanding t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blondell, Ruby, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.