...Matthew Sharpe This essay undertakes a close analysis of Leo Strauss’s remarkable but undertreated Leo Strauss on Plato’s “Symposium,” reading it as opening a privileged purview of his own (and his students’) wider understandings of philosophy, poetry, and politics. The essay begins by drawing out...

...Jonathan Lavery After a review of some general issues surrounding the interpretation of Plato's dialogues, I consider in detail the reception of Plato's Protagoras in English scholarship since 1956, that is, during the last half century. That scholarship falls into three periods. At first (1956-82...

... narratology. This article suggests that a reconsideration of the concept of mimesis could help build a bridge between Ricoeur's phenomenological approach and cognitive studies in narrative. More specifically, it argues that Plato's discussion of poetry in the Republic , unanimously criticized by modern...

...Gareth B. Matthews In the Theaetetus , Plato has Socrates propose that thinking is a discussion the soul has with itself. But Plato never wrote a philosophical work in the form of an inner dialogue. Augustine's Soliloquies is the first such work. Writing in this form, Augustine is inspired to treat...

... of the period, this amounted to the substitution of Echo, the compassionate nymph,for Narcissus, the self-centered deity. This analysis is informed by the fate of these cultural figures as well as by theoretical discussions of sympathy/compassion in antiquity (Plato and Aristotle) and in the seventeenth...

... and was influenced by what one might call the philosophical problem of the seminar. As Derrida points out on a number of occasions, the seminar is not a neutral space. Indeed, it is a particularly ambivalent one, as early discussions of it in “Plato’s Pharmacy” and Clang show. In appropriating the form, not only...

... of the people around him, as the ego so often, in Murdoch's view, obscures reality. On the other hand, love also supplies real insight, and Murdoch, closely following Plato's Phaedrus , shows how Bradley's passion for Julian forces him out of himself, enabling him to see much more than he had previously seen. I...

... in antiquity, from the earliest allegorizing readings of Homer to the full-blown “running commentary” in the Platonic tradition (fourth to sixth centuries CE). Running commentaries are mostly on authoritative thinkers such as Plato and Aristotle. Yet they are never mere scholarly enterprises but, rather...

...Jan Alber; Marco Caracciolo; Irina Marchesini Among literary-theoretical concepts, mimesis has one of the longest histories, dating back to Plato and Aristotle. In the twentieth century, discussion of mimesis resulted in a number of highly influential contributions, including Eric Auerbach’s...

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... is that theHost knows that the clerks atOxforduse sophemes, sophisms or sophismata. Sophismata were propositions such as Socrates is whiter than Plato begins to be white, a sophismata by Richard Kilvington that I discuss below that were subject to a kind of disputation (one normally associated with the bach...

... brief reviews of Eric Havelock’s and Jacques Derrida’s contrasting views of Plato’s relation- ship to orality and writing, contends that Aristotle was the first Greek thinker to conceptualize poetic and rhetorical texts largely in terms of writing, there- by turning them into bounded objects...

...]) . Palievskii Petr 1963 “O strukturalizme v literaturovedenii,” Znamia 12 : 189 – 98 . Pan'kov Nikolai A. 2005 “Iz perepiski M. M. Bakhtina s V. N. Turbinym (1962 – 1966),” Znamia 7 : 113 – 61 . Plato 2012 A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues . Edited...

..., serve (or, better, are subordinated to) a philosophy which, from his first Italian dialogues, he planned as revolutionary in content as well as in form. The ranking of “content” above “form” should be kept in mind in possible comparisons with classical models, such as, for example, Plato...

... Stephen 2002 The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature ( New York : Viking ). Plato 1963 The Collected Dialogues of Plato Including the Letters , translated by Hamilton Edith Cairns Huntington ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press ). Poe Edgar Allan...