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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300037627
ISBN-139780300037623
eBay Product ID (ePID)1451173
Product Key Features
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NamePlato's Symposium
Publication Year1987
SubjectHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy
AuthorStanley Rosen
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight24.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN86-023342
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal184
SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of the Symposium to be published in English, and one of the first English works on Plato to take its bearings by the dramatic form of the Platonic dialogue, a thesis that was regarded as heterodox at the time but which today is widely accepted by scholars of the most diverse standpoint. Rosen was also one of the first to study in detail the philosophical significance of the phenomenon of concrete human sexuality, as it is presented by Plato in the diverse characters of the main speakers in the dialogue. His analysis of the theoretical significance of pederasty in the dialogue was highly controversial at the time, but is today accepted as central to Plato's dramatic phenomenology of human existence.