LEADER 04011nam 2200553 450 001 9910480217303321 005 20210125195323.0 010 $a0-271-07558-9 010 $a0-271-02271-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271022710 035 $a(CKB)1000000000466536 035 $a(MH)009547018-2 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000222563 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12040284 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000222563 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10173897 035 $a(PQKB)10314976 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224581 035 $a(DE-B1597)583712 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271022710 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000466536 100 $a20200929d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlato's dialectic at play $eargument, structure, and myth in the Symposium /$fKevin Corrigan and Elena Glazov-Corrigan 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 266 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-271-02462-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aApollodorus's prologue : an imitation of an imitation -- Aristodemus's prologue : the destruction and transformation of the factual frame of reference -- The order of the speeches : formulating the problem -- From character to speech : the early speeches and their significance -- Diotima-Socrates : mythical thought in the making -- The greater mysteries and the structure of the Symposium so far -- Alcibiades and the conclusion of the Symposium : the test and trial of praise -- Conclusion : Plato's dialectic at play. 330 $aThe Symposium is one of Plato?s most accessible dialogues, an engrossing historical document as well as an entertaining literary masterpiece. By uncovering the structural design of the dialogue, Plato?s Dialectic at Play aims at revealing a Plato for whom the dialogical form was not merely ornamentation or philosophical methodology but the essence of philosophical exploration. His dialectic is not only argument; it is also play. Careful analysis of each layer of the text leads cumulatively to a picture of the dialogue?s underlying structure, related to both argument and myth, and shows that a dynamic link exists between Diotima?s higher mysteries and the organization of the dialogue as a whole. On this basis the authors argue that the Symposium, with its positive theory of art contained in the ascent to the Beautiful, may be viewed as a companion piece to the Republic, with its negative critique of the role of art in the context of the Good. Following Nietzsche?s suggestion and applying criteria developed by Mikhail Bakhtin, they further argue for seeing the Symposium as the first novel. The book concludes with a comprehensive reevaluation of the significance of the Symposium and its place in Plato?s thought generally, touching on major issues in Platonic scholarship: the nature of art, the body-soul connection, the problem of identity, the relationship between mythos and logos, Platonic love, and the question of authorial writing and the vanishing signature of the absent Plato himself. 606 $aPHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aPHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical. 676 $a184 700 $aCorrigan$b Kevin$0281210 702 $aGlazov-Corrigan$b Elena$f1953- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480217303321 996 $aPlato's dialectic at play$92477454 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress