Plato
Plato's
- ISBN 13:
- 9781501772894
- author:
- Plato
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 318
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Collections, Letters,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Plato's Letters presents a unified and coherent teaching, marked by Plato's artfulness and insight. For centuries, scholars have debated the provenance and significance of this collection of letters, but Ariel Helfer's analysis reveals that they were written as a single work with a clear purpose. In this highly literal translation, accompanied by extensive notes on historical context and manuscript transmission, Helfer presents a necessary perspective for readers who wish to study Plato's Letters as a work of Platonic philosophy. The result is an unusual epistolary novel, in which Plato sought to guide his most demanding readers in thinking more deeply about the meaning of his own career as a philosopher, writer, and political advisor. By reviewing scholarly history and bringing out the political philosophic lessons revealed in the Letters, Helfer defends the "literary unity thesis" and recovers what has been a minority view concerning this misunderstood Platonic text. This new understanding makes Plato's Letters of tremendous importance for the study of Platonic political philosophy.
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