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Jacob Howland, author of The Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy, is associate professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Tulsa.An admirable book—not only a thoughtful and impressively wide-ranging study of Plato’s dialogues, but a sharply focused and quite accessible one as well. It will be valuable to both experienced and relatively new readers of Plato…The book sets out a bright and novel agenda for reading and discussing Plato.”
- Stephen Salkever, Bryn Mawr College, The Review of Politics
This is a powerful and compelling book . . . Howland's detailed interpretation of each of the dialogues he treats sheds important and imaginative new light on the meaning and the significance of these dialogues . . . Howland makes his case in a completely convincing way . . . A remarkable and important contribution to Platonic scholarship . . . A truly exellent book from which scholars and students will benefit greatly.
- Drew A. Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College,
This is an admirable book, thoughtful and impressively wide-ranging study of Platos's dialogues, but a sharply focused and quite accessible one as well. It will be valuable to both experienced and relatively new readers.
Howland provides an insightful interpretation of Socrates'.
- J. Gough, Red deer College, CHOICE, September 1998 Vol. 36 No. 1
Howland's argument for the thesis is forceful...
Review of Metaphysics
Howland provides a thoughtful consideration of philosophic drama, a close textual reading of the octology, and useful diagrams of the steps and divisions in the Sophist and the Statesman. . . . His insightful interpretation of Socrates' views and character is a useful companion to the octology while illuminating the sophist who is at the same time not a sophist.
- J. Gough, Red deer College, CHOICE