Plato's Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

by Nickolas Pappas

This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman). It offers fresh and sometimes radical interpretations of these dialogues.

Those exceptional elements of experience - love, city, philosopher - do not escape embodiment but rather occupy the same world that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367424479
• ISBN13: 9780367424473
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"