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The Phaedrus Of Plato: A Translation With Notes And Dialogical Analysis

The Phaedrus Of Plato: A Translation With Notes And Dialogical Analysis

by Kenneth Quandt Ph.D.
The Phaedrus Of Plato: A Translation With Notes And Dialogical Analysis

The Phaedrus Of Plato: A Translation With Notes And Dialogical Analysis

by Kenneth Quandt Ph.D.

Overview

This pioneering translation of Plato's Phaedrus, with detailed summary and full philological and exegetical notes taking into consideration all commentaries since Hermias, followed by a painstaking dialogical analysis of the text that shows what we must think at every moment in order to understand the thinking that brings the Greek text to life.

In Kenneth Quandt's treatment, Plato's seminal work is allowed to create its own horizon and a new and profoundly unified interpretation emerges: Socrates's conversation with Phaedrus reaches a vision of eros that explains the paradoxes of human nature, explodes the zero-sum game of master and slave, exposes the crabbed fetishism of the written word, and releases the mind to a life of contemplation fixed in a cloudless noon.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781680531084
Publisher: Academica Press
Publication date: 05/01/2020
Pages: 445
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kenneth Quandt received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under Elroy Bundy and Gerson Rabinowitz, and has been reading and teaching Plato in Greek, privately, ever since. He maintains a large commentary on the Greek text of Plato's Republic online (www.onplatosrepublic.com) and he is the translator of Plato-Nietzsche by Monique Dixsaut and co-author (with Reinhold Knoll) of The Revelation of Art-Religion.
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