Philosophy as Agôn: A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts

by Robert Metcalf

In Philosophy as Ag n: A Study of Plato's Gorgias and Related Texts, Robert Metcalf offers a fresh interpretation of Plato's dialogues as dramatic texts whose philosophy is not so much a matter of doctrine as it is a dynamic, nondogmatic, and open-ended practice of engaging others in agonistic dialogue.

Metcalf challenges prevailing interpretations according to which the ag n (contest or struggle) between the interlocutors in the dialogues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810137984
• ISBN13: 9780810137981
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"