| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 452 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-427) and index. |
| Contents |
Drama and dialogue -- Reading Plato -- Plato the "dramatist" -- Why dialogue form? -- Imitation of character -- "Character" -- Platonic Sokrates -- Mimetic pedagogy -- Elenctic Sokrates at work: Hippias Minor -- Elenctic Sokrates -- Hippias and Homer -- Sokrates and Hippias -- Rewriting Homer -- A changing cast of characters: Republic -- Socratic testing: three responses -- Playing devil's advocate -- Sokrates and the sons of Ariston -- Self-censorship -- Learning by example -- Reproducing Sokrates: Theaetetus -- Sokrates and the philosopher prince -- Likeness -- Difference -- Cutting the cord -- Becoming Sokrates -- Putting Sokrates in his place: Sophist and Statesman -- Plato's triad -- Man with No Name -- Homogenized, pasteurized respondents -- Visitor's pedagogy -- Assaulting the father -- A place for everything, and everything in its place -- A word is worth a thousand pictures -- Visitor and Sokrates -- Silencing Sokrates. |
| Summary |
This book provides an interpretation of Plato in general, and several dialogues in particular, from the point of view of dramatic characterization. It aims to show traditional 'analytical' philosophical interpreters the significance of such 'literary' features for understanding the philosophical issues at stake. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plato. Dialogues.
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Plato. |
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Platon. Dialogues. |
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Dialogues (Plato) |
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PlatÃo, 428-348 A. C. |
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Plato. |
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Characters and characteristics.
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Characters and characteristics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blondell, Ruby, 1954- Play of character in Plato's Dialogues. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521793009 (DLC) 2001052963 (OCoLC)48501135 |
| ISBN |
0511020325 (electronic book) |
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9780511020322 (electronic book) |
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9780511482472 (electronic book) |
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0511482477 (electronic book) |
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1280432985 |
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9781280432989 |
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0521793009 |
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9780521793001 |
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0511047215 |
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9780511047213 |
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