This is the first full-length study of the Symposium to be published in English, and one of the first English works on Plato to take its bearings by the dramatic form of the Platonic dialogue, a thesis that was regarded as heterodox at the time but which today is widely accepted by scholars of the most diverse standpoint. Rosen was also one of the first to study in detail the philosophical significance of the phenomenon of concrete human sexuality, as it is presented by Plato in the diverse characters of the main speakers ...
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This is the first full-length study of the Symposium to be published in English, and one of the first English works on Plato to take its bearings by the dramatic form of the Platonic dialogue, a thesis that was regarded as heterodox at the time but which today is widely accepted by scholars of the most diverse standpoint. Rosen was also one of the first to study in detail the philosophical significance of the phenomenon of concrete human sexuality, as it is presented by Plato in the diverse characters of the main speakers in the dialogue. His analysis of the theoretical significance of pederasty in the dialogue was highly controversial at the time, but is today accepted as central to Plato's dramatic phenomenology of human existence. Rosen discusses a variety of topics that had previously been neglected in the secondary literature, including the problem of the hybristic nature of the philosopher, the poetical dimension of Plato's conception of philosophy, and the theoretical implication of the difference between Platonic writing and Socratic conversation.
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Add this copy of Plato's Symposium (Carthage Reprint) to cart. $46.00, fair condition, Sold by Singing Saw Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by St. Augustine's Press.
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Fair. Size: 5x1x8; Paperback. Some underlining and bracketing to margins in pencil. Good reading copy for a class. The first full-length study of Plato's Symposium to be published in English.
Add this copy of Plato's Symposium to cart. $25.00, good condition, Sold by Henry Stachyra, Bookseller rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from STILLWATER, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1968 by Yale University Press.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Xl, 346pp. Ex-library. No dust-jacket. Hints of bumps to upper corners of boards and general light but inoffensive wear to cloth. Text clean. Binding sound. Overall, a good, clean, sound copy.
Add this copy of Plato's Symposium [Inscribed By Rosen to Poet Robert to cart. $90.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1968 by Yale University Press.
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Near fine in Very good+ jacket. Inscribed by Rosen to poet Robert Lima! Purple cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked, but top edge of block is foxed. DJ has mild rubbing, toning, edgewear, now in archival mylar wrap.
Add this copy of Plato's Symposium to cart. $95.00, like new condition, Sold by JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BURLINGTON, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1968 by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
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FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS A 2" TEAR WITH ASSOCIATED CREASE AT THE BOTTOM FORE-EDGE CORNER, A FEW SHORT EDGE TEARS, CORNERS WORN WITH A SMALL BIT OF LOSS, RUBBING TO THE VERTICAL FOLDS, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. In modern terms the Symposium might be described as a phenomenology of the human psyche, a description of the "stages in life's way" toward philosophy.
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