The Oxford Handbook of Plato - Couverture souple

Fine, Gail

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199769192 ISBN 13 : 9780199769193

Editeur : OUP USA, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The twenty-one commissioned articles in The Oxford Handbook of Plato provide in-depth and up-to-date discussions of a variety of topics and dialogues. The result is a useful state-of-the-art reference to the man many consider the most important philosophical thinker in history. Each article is an original contribution from a leading scholar, and they all serve several functions at once: they survey the lay of the land; express and develop the authors' own views; and situate those views within a range of alternatives. This Handbook contains chapters on metaphysics, epistemology, love, language, ethics, politics, art and education. Individual chapters are devoted to each of the following dialogues: the Republic, Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Timaeus, and Philebus. There are also chapters on Plato and the dialogue form; on Plato in his time and place; on the history of the Platonic corpus; on Aristotle's criticism of Plato, and on Plato and Platonism.

Revue de presse :

The volume's greatest strength is its evenness: with few exceptions, the articles are pitched at the same level as one another, rendering the pieces equally accessible to their audience. Another strength is its thoroughness: it appears to leave no real topical stone unturned in its efforts to acquaint the reader with Plato and Platonic scholarship. (Philosophy in Review)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: OUP USA
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199769192
• ISBN 13: 9780199769193
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 618