Phaedrus - Softcover

Plato, Plato

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1404325018 ISBN 13: 9781404325012

Publisher: IndyPublish, 2002

Synopsis

With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato's Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a precise yet unusually readable translation of one of the great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric. Featuring some of Plato's most soaringly lyrical passages, the Phaedrus investigates the soul's erotic longing and its relationship to the whole cosmos, as well as inquiring into the nature of rhetoric and the problem of writing.Nichols's attention to dramatic detail brings this dialogue to life. Plato's striking variety in conversational address (names and various terms of relative warmth and coolness) is carefully reproduced, as is alteration in tone and implication even in the short responses. The translation renders references to the gods accurately and non-monotheistically for the first time, and includes a fascinating variety of oaths and invocations. Nichols believes that Plato's thought on rhetoric has been largely misunderstood, and he uses his translation as an opportunity to reconstruct the classical position on right relations between thought and public activity.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Library of Liberal Arts title.

About the Author:

Alexander Nehamas is Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University. Paul Woodruff is Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin.

About this edition

• Publisher: IndyPublish
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1404325018
• ISBN 13: 9781404325012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114