Plato as author : the rhetoric of philosophy /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Michelini, Ann N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Series:Cincinnati classical studies ; new ser., v. 8.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • How to read a Platonic prologue: Lysis 203a-207d
  • Plato's Socratic mask
  • Plato's politic writing and the cultivation of souls
  • Glaucon's couch, or mimesis and the art of the Republic
  • Socrates' argumentative burden in the Republic
  • To hear the right thing and to miss the point: Plato's implicit poetics
  • Rhetoric as part of an initiation into the mysteries: a new interpretation of the Platonic Phaedrus
  • Six philosophers on philosophical esotericism
  • Subtext and subterfuge in Cratylus
  • The man with no name: Socrates and the visitor from Elea
  • Metaphysics and individual souls in the Phaedo
  • On the philosophical autonomy of a Platonic dialogue: the case of recollection
  • The rhetoric of philosophy: Socrates' swan-song.