LEADER 04328nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910459338703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53825-X 010 $a9786612538254 010 $a0-226-04277-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226042770 035 $a(CKB)2670000000015047 035 $a(EBL)515711 035 $a(OCoLC)609863465 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000359340 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11273513 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000359340 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10381466 035 $a(PQKB)10116992 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122495 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC515711 035 $a(DE-B1597)524229 035 $a(OCoLC)746883493 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226042770 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL515711 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10381158 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253825 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000015047 100 $a20020531d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEncounters & reflections$b[electronic resource] $econversations with Seth Benardete : with Robert Berman, Ronna Burger, and Michael Davis /$fedited by Ronna Burger 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-04278-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe University of Chicago, 1948-52, 1954-55 -- Athens, Rome, and Florence, 1952-54 -- St. John's, 1955-57 -- Harvard, 1957-60 -- Brandeis, New York University, and the New School, 1960-2001 -- From pattern to dynamic -- The "indeterminate dyad" -- Eros and the city -- Philosophy and science -- Christianity and Roman writers. 330 $aBy turns wickedly funny and profoundly illuminating, Encounters and Reflections presents a captivating and unconventional portrait of the life and works of Seth Benardete. One of the leading scholars of ancient thought, Benardete here reflects on both the people he knew and the topics that fascinated him throughout his career in a series of candid, freewheeling conversations with Robert Berman, Ronna Burger, and Michael Davis. The first part of the book discloses vignettes about fellow students, colleagues, and acquaintances of Benardete's who later became major figures in the academic and intellectual life of twentieth-century America. We glimpse the student days of Allan Bloom, Stanley Rosen, George Steiner, and we discover the life of the mind as lived by well-known scholars such as David Grene, Jacob Klein, and Benardete's mentor Leo Strauss. We also encounter a number of other learned, devoted, and sometimes eccentric luminaries, including T.S. Eliot, James Baldwin, Werner Jaeger, John Davidson Beazley, and Willard Quine. In the book's second part, Benardete reflects on his own intellectual growth and on his ever-evolving understanding of the texts and ideas he spent a lifetime studying. Revisiting some of his recurrent themes-among them eros and the beautiful, the city and the law, and the gods and the human soul-Benardete shares his views on thinkers such as Plato, Homer, and Heidegger, as well as the relations between philosophy and science and between Christianity and ancient Roman thought. Engaging and informative, Encounters and Reflections brings Benardete's thought to life to enlighten and inspire a new generation of thinkers. 606 $aClassicists$zUnited States$vInterviews 606 $aClassical philology$xStudy and teaching$zUnited States 606 $aPhilosophy, Ancient$xStudy and teaching$zUnited States 606 $aPhilosophy teachers$zUnited States$vInterviews 606 $aCollege teachers$zUnited States$vInterviews 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aClassicists 615 0$aClassical philology$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aPhilosophy, Ancient$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aPhilosophy teachers 615 0$aCollege teachers 676 $a880.9 700 $aBenardete$b Seth$0487149 701 $aBurger$b Ronna$f1947-$0153577 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459338703321 996 $aEncounters & reflections$92253470 997 $aUNINA