Interpreting Plato: The Dialogues as Drama

by James A. Arieti

Book Overview

Despite Plato's various warnings not to do so, his dialogues have been studied as systematic philosophy since antiquity. In this innovative and controversial reassessment, James Arieti argues that they should be read primarily as works of drama rather than philosophical discourse. Analyses of 18 of the 28 dialogues allow the reader to see them as integrated dramas, with all the ambiguities and uncertainties that literary works contain. As in plays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847676633
• ISBN13: 9780847676637
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"