{"product_id":"the-bloomsbury-handbook-of-plato-9781350227231","title":"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003e(\u003ci\u003efor the 1st edition\u003c\/i\u003e) 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 *\u003cbr\u003e(\u003ci\u003efor the 1st edition\u003c\/i\u003e)Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e(\u003ci\u003efor the 1st edition\u003c\/i\u003e) 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Dialogue Abbreviations How to Use This Book Introduction \u003cb\u003e1. PLATO’S LIFE, HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHIC CONTEXT \u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003e2. THE DIALOGUES \u003c\/b\u003e The Platonic corpus and manuscript tradition \u003ci\u003eAlcibiades 1 \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Apology of Socrates \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharmides \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eClitophon \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCratylus \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCrito \u003c\/i\u003e Dubia and Spuria (\u003ci\u003eAlcibiades\u003c\/i\u003e 2, \u003ci\u003eHipparchus\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Minos\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Rival Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAxiochus\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Definitions\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e On Justice\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e On Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Demodocus\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Eryxias\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Sisyphus\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eEpinomis \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEuthydemus \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEuthyphro \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGorgias \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHippias Major \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHippias Minor \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaches \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaws \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLetters \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLysis \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMenexenus \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMeno \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eParmenides\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhaedo\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilebus \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePoliticus (Statesman) \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eProtagoras \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRepublic \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSophist \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSymposium \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTheaetetus \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTheages \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimaeus\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCritias \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE DIALOGUES\u003c\/b\u003e Anonymity Characters Comedy Drama History Emotions (\u003ci\u003epath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003epath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eemata\u003c\/i\u003e) Humour Irony Language Literary composition Musical structure Myth (\u003ci\u003emuthos\u003c\/i\u003e) Pedagogical structure Pedimental structure Play (\u003ci\u003epaidia\u003c\/i\u003e) Proleptic composition Reading order Socrates (the character) Tragedy \u003cb\u003e4. CONCEPTS, THEMES AND TOPICS TREATED IN THE DIALOGUES \u003c\/b\u003e Account (see \u003ci\u003eLogos\u003c\/i\u003e) Aesthetics \u003ci\u003eAkrasia\u003c\/i\u003e (incontinence, weakness of will) Animals Antilogy and eristic \u003ci\u003eAporia \u003c\/i\u003e Appearance and reality Argument (see \u003ci\u003eLogos\u003c\/i\u003e) Art (\u003ci\u003etechn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e) Beauty (\u003ci\u003ekalon\u003c\/i\u003e) Being and becoming (\u003ci\u003eon, onta; gignesthai\u003c\/i\u003e) Cause (\u003ci\u003eaitia\u003c\/i\u003e) Cave, the allegory of the Character City (\u003ci\u003epolis\u003c\/i\u003e) Convention (see \u003ci\u003eLaw\u003c\/i\u003e) Cosmos (\u003ci\u003ekosmos\u003c\/i\u003e) Cross-examination (see \u003ci\u003eElenchus\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eDaim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eon\u003c\/i\u003e Death Definition (see \u003ci\u003eLogos\u003c\/i\u003e) Desire (appetite, \u003ci\u003eepithumia\u003c\/i\u003e) Dialectic (\u003ci\u003edialektik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e) The divided line Education \u003ci\u003eElenchus\u003c\/i\u003e (cross-examination, refutation) Epistemology (knowledge) Eristic (see Antilogy and Eristics) \u003ci\u003eEr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eos\u003c\/i\u003e (see Love) Eschatology Ethics \u003ci\u003eEudaimonia\u003c\/i\u003e (see Happiness) Excellence (virtue, \u003ci\u003earet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee?\u003c\/i\u003e) Forms (\u003ci\u003eeidos, idea\u003c\/i\u003e) Friendship (\u003ci\u003ephilia\u003c\/i\u003e) Gender Goodness (the good, \u003ci\u003eAgathon\u003c\/i\u003e) Happiness (\u003ci\u003eeudaimonia\u003c\/i\u003e) Hermeneutics Idea (see forms) Image (\u003ci\u003eeik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eon\u003c\/i\u003e) Imitation (see \u003ci\u003eMim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eesis\u003c\/i\u003e) Incontinence (see \u003ci\u003eAkrasia\u003c\/i\u003e) Inspiration Intellectualism Justice (\u003ci\u003edikaion, dikaiosun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e) Knowledge (see Epistemology) Language Law, convention (\u003ci\u003enomos\u003c\/i\u003e) Logic \u003ci\u003eLogos\u003c\/i\u003e (account, argument, definition) Love (\u003ci\u003eer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eos\u003c\/i\u003e) Madness and possession Mathematics (\u003ci\u003emath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eematik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e) Medicine (\u003ci\u003eiatrik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e) Metaphysics (see Ontology) Metatheatre Method \u003ci\u003eMim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eesis\u003c\/i\u003e (imitation) Music Mysteries Myth (\u003ci\u003emuthos\u003c\/i\u003e) Nature (\u003ci\u003ephusis\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eNomos\u003c\/i\u003e (see Law) Non-propositional knowledge The one (\u003ci\u003eto hen\u003c\/i\u003e) Ontology (metaphysics) Orphism \u003ci\u003ePaiderastia\u003c\/i\u003e (pederasty) Participation Perception and sensation (\u003ci\u003eaisth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eesis, aisthanomai\u003c\/i\u003e) Philosophy and the philosopher \u003ci\u003ePhusis\u003c\/i\u003e (see Nature) Piety (\u003ci\u003eeusebeia, hosios\u003c\/i\u003e) Pleasure (\u003ci\u003eh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eedon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e) Poetry (\u003ci\u003epoi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eesis\u003c\/i\u003e) Politics and the (figure of the) \u003ci\u003ePoliticus \u003c\/i\u003e Reality (see Appearance and reality) Reason Recollection (\u003ci\u003eanamn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eesis\u003c\/i\u003e) Refutation (see \u003ci\u003eElenchus\u003c\/i\u003e) Rhetoric (\u003ci\u003erhetorik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e) Self-knowledge Sensation (see Perception and sensation) The Sophists \u003ci\u003eSoul (psych\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee) \u003c\/i\u003e The sun simile Theology Time Virtue (see Excellence) Vision Weakness of will (see \u003ci\u003eAkrasia\u003c\/i\u003e) Women Writing \u003cb\u003e5. LATER RECEPTION, INTERPRETATION AND INFLUENCE OF PLATO AND THE DIALOGUES \u003c\/b\u003e 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529219088727,"sku":"9781350227231","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-bloomsbury-handbook-of-plato-9781350227231","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}