Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Gerald A. Press was Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA.
Mateo Duque is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University, USA.
This well conceived and thoughtfully organized collection brings together scores of lucid and authoritative essays by many of the leading Plato scholars in the world. In this revised and updated second edition, it remains a reliable and congenial guide to the perplexities of Plato’s philosophy.
Glenn W. Most, Professor of Greek Philology (retired), Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
This second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato is most welcome. Some entries have been rewritten or updated, and some new well-informed entries added to offer a coherent introduction to even more aspects of Plato and his philosophy. This collection will be most helpful for beginners, but also will serve senior scholars. It is a treasure for anyone who is interested in the field of ancient philosophy.
Michael Erler, Professor Emeritus of Classic Philology, University of Würzburg, Germany
This handbook concisely introduces critical interpretations from antiquity to the present day, provides the background that sets the dialogues in context, and above all, reveals the depth and breadth of Plato’s philosophical legacy. The highly readable entries are expertly informed and refreshingly non-dogmatic, and the companion summarizes the dialogues, letters and spuria to leave the reader in a better position to interpret Plato. Highly recommended for Plato readers both novice and experienced.
Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Professor of Classics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
(<i>for the 1st edition</i>) The editor has assembled a remarkably wide range of contributors, able to cover - as successfully as any team could, within the space of a single volume - the outlines of the complex and fissiparous world of Plato, Platonism, and Platonic interpretation up to the present day. The book represents a unique resource for advanced students and professional scholars alike.
Christopher Rowe, Emeritus Professor of Greek, Durham University, UK
(<i>for the 1st edition</i>)Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers.
CHOICE
(<i>for the 1st edition</i>) Gerald Press and his associate editors, Harald Tarrant, Deborah Nails and Francesco Gonzalez, have given us a companion to turn (and return) to for succinct guidance about topics in Plato's philosophy, the intellectual context in which he wrote, and the many different historical and contemporary interpretations of his work . . . Both in overall conception and its individual entries this companion is much to be welcomed . . . The high standard of the contributions and the rich array of entries make this companion an excellent resource for courses on Plato or individual dialogues, while it also has much to offer to anyone who wants a concise and up-to-date introduction to aspects of Plato, his work, or his philosophy.
Albert Joosse, Universität Freiburg, Breisgau, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
This essential reference text on the life, thought and writings of Plato uses over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topics for both the first-time student and seasoned scholar of Plato and ancient philosophy.
It is organized into five parts illuminating Plato’s life, the whole of the Dialogues attributed to him, the Dialogues’ literary features, the concepts and themes explored within them and Plato’s reception via his influence on subsequent philosophers and the various interpretations of his work. This fully updated 2nd edition includes 19 newly commissioned entries on topics ranging across comedy, tragedy, Xenophon, metatheatre, gender, musical theory, animals, Orphism, political theory, religion, time, Hellenistic philosophy and post-Platonic ancient commentaries. It also features revisions to the majority of articles from the 1st edition, including 8 which have been completely re-written, and 12 which have had the references substantially revised.
Reflecting the growing diversity of Plato scholarship across the world, this edition includes contributions from a wide range of scholars who enrich the field and provide students and scholars with a vital resource for study and reference.
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Dialogue Abbreviations
How to Use This Book
Introduction
1. PLATO’S LIFE, HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHIC CONTEXT
Plato’s life
Aristophanes and intellectuals
Comedy
Education
Eleatics
Isocrates and logography
Orality and literacy
Poetry (epic and lyric)
Pre-socratic philosophers
Pythagoreans
Rhetoric and speechmaking
Socrates (historical)
Socratics (other than Plato)
The Sophists
Xenophon
2. THE DIALOGUES
The Platonic corpus and manuscript tradition
Alcibiades 1
The Apology of Socrates
Charmides
Clitophon
Cratylus
Crito
Dubia and Spuria (Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Minos, Rival Lovers, Axiochus, Definitions, On Justice, On Virtue, Demodocus, Eryxias, Sisyphus)
Epinomis
Euthydemus
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Hippias Major
Hippias Minor
Ion
Laches
Laws
Letters
Lysis
Menexenus
Meno
Parmenides
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Philebus
Politicus (Statesman)
Protagoras
Republic
Sophist
Symposium
Theaetetus
Theages
Timaeus and Critias
3. IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE DIALOGUES
Anonymity
Characters
Comedy
Drama
History
Emotions (pathe, pathemata)
Humour
Irony
Language
Literary composition
Musical structure
Myth (muthos)
Pedagogical structure
Pedimental structure
Play (paidia)
Proleptic composition
Reading order
Socrates (the character)
Tragedy
4. CONCEPTS, THEMES AND TOPICS TREATED IN THE DIALOGUES
Account (see Logos)
Aesthetics
Akrasia (incontinence, weakness of will)
Animals
Antilogy and eristic
Aporia
Appearance and reality
Argument (see Logos)
Art (techne)
Beauty (kalon)
Being and becoming (on, onta; gignesthai)
Cause (aitia)
Cave, the allegory of the
Character
City (polis)
Convention (see Law)
Cosmos (kosmos)
Cross-examination (see Elenchus)
Daimon
Death
Definition (see Logos)
Desire (appetite, epithumia)
Dialectic (dialektike)
The divided line
Education
Elenchus (cross-examination, refutation)
Epistemology (knowledge)
Eristic (see Antilogy and Eristics)
Eros (see Love)
Eschatology
Ethics
Eudaimonia (see Happiness)
Excellence (virtue, arete?)
Forms (eidos, idea)
Friendship (philia)
Gender
Goodness (the good, Agathon)
Happiness (eudaimonia)
Hermeneutics
Idea (see forms)
Image (eikon)
Imitation (see Mimesis)
Incontinence (see Akrasia)
Inspiration
Intellectualism
Justice (dikaion, dikaiosune)
Knowledge (see Epistemology)
Language
Law, convention (nomos)
Logic
Logos (account, argument, definition)
Love (eros)
Madness and possession
Mathematics (mathematike)
Medicine (iatrike)
Metaphysics (see Ontology)
Metatheatre
Method
Mimesis (imitation)
Music
Mysteries
Myth (muthos)
Nature (phusis)
Nomos (see Law)
Non-propositional knowledge
The one (to hen)
Ontology (metaphysics)
Orphism
Paiderastia (pederasty)
Participation
Perception and sensation (aisthesis, aisthanomai)
Philosophy and the philosopher
Phusis (see Nature)
Piety (eusebeia, hosios)
Pleasure (hedone)
Poetry (poiesis)
Politics and the (figure of the)
Politicus
Reality (see Appearance and reality)
Reason
Recollection (anamnesis)
Refutation (see Elenchus)
Rhetoric (rhetorike)
Self-knowledge
Sensation (see Perception and sensation)
The Sophists
Soul (psyche)
The sun simile
Theology
Time
Virtue (see Excellence)
Vision
Weakness of will (see Akrasia)
Women
Writing
5. LATER RECEPTION, INTERPRETATION AND INFLUENCE OF PLATO AND THE DIALOGUES
Section A: Plato in the Ancient World
Ancient hermeneutics
Aristotle
Academy of Athens, ancient history of
Jewish Platonism (ancient)
Neoplatonism and its diaspora
Section B: Plato in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Medieval Islamic Platonism
Medieval Jewish Platonism
Medieval Christian Platonism
Renaissance Platonism
The Cambridge Platonists
Section C: Plato in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
Early modern philosophy from Descartes to Berkeley
Nineteenth-century German idealism
Nineteenth-century Plato scholarship
Developmentalism
Compositional chronology
Analytic approaches to Plato
Vlastosian approaches
Continental approaches
Straussian readings of Plato
Plato’s unwritten doctrines
Esotericism
The Tübingen approach
Anti-Platonism, from ancient to modern
References
Index
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Gerald A. Press was Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA.
Mateo Duque is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University, USA.