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Plato`s Symposium – A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete
Av Plato Plato, Seth Benardete
Häftad, 2001
183 kr
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Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating …
Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium
Av Leo Strauss, Seth Benardete
Häftad, 2003
324 kr
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The first major piece of unpublished work by Leo Strauss to appear in more than 30 years, this volume offers the public the unprecedented experience of encountering this renowned scholar as his students did. Given as a course in autumn 1959 under the title "Plato's Political Philosophy" these …
Aristotle On Poetics
Av Seth Benardete, Michael Davis
Häftad, 2002
125 kr
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Aristotle's much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it anew with a view to rendering Aristotle’s text into English as precisely as possible. A literal translation has …
Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy
Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus
Häftad, 2009
366 kr
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"The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy", one of the most groundbreaking works of twentieth-century Platonic studies, is now back in print for a new generation of students and scholars to discover. In this volume, distinguished classicist Seth Benardete interprets and pairs two important Platonic …
Socrates' Second Sailing
On Plato's Republic
Häftad, 1992
342 kr
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In this section-by-section commentary, Benardete argues that Plato's Republic is a holistic analysis of the beautiful, the good, and the just. This book provides a fresh interpretation of the Republic and a new understanding of philosophy as practiced by Plato and Socrates. "Cryptic allusions, …
Encounters and Reflections
Conversations with Seth Benardete
Av Seth Benardete, Ronna Burger
E-bok, 2010
1068 kr
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By turns wickedly funny and profoundly illuminating, Encounters and Reflections presents a captivating and unconventional portrait of the life and works of Seth Benardete. One of the leading scholars of ancient thought, Benardete here reflects on both the people he knew and the topics that …
Plato's "Laws"
The Discovery of Being
Häftad, 2024
264 kr
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An insightful commentary on Plato’s Laws, his complex final work.The Laws was Plato’s last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. In contrast to the Republic, which presents an abstract ideal, the Laws appears to provide practical guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of …
Argument of the Action
Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy
Av Seth Benardete, Ronna Burger m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
303 kr
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This volume brings together Seth Benardete’s studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle’s Metaphysics.The Argument of the Action spans four decades of Seth Benardete’s work, documenting its impressive range. Benardete’s philosophic reading of the poets and …
Plato's "e;Laws"e;
The Discovery of Being
E-bok, 2024
507 kr
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An insightful commentary on Plato’s Laws , his complex final work. The Laws was Plato’s last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. In contrast to the Republic, which presents an abstract ideal, the Laws appears to provide practical guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of …
Argument of the Action
Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy
Av Seth Benardete, Michael Davis m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
584 kr
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This volume brings together Seth Benardete’s studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle’s Metaphysics . The Argument of the Action spans four decades of Seth Benardete’s work, documenting its impressive range. Benardete’s philosophic reading of the poets …
Bow and the Lyre
A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey
Häftad, 2008
625 kr
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In this exciting interpretation of the Odyssey, the late renowned scholar Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the …
Bow and the Lyre
A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey
E-bok, 2008
577 kr
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In this exciting interpretation of the Odyssey , the late renowned scholar Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the …
05 Achilles and Hector – Homeric Hero
Inbunden, 2005
175 kr
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Benardete's 1955 doctoral dissertation in social thought for the University of Chicago was published in two parts in the St. John's Review in the spring and summer of 1985. The parts do not take the opposing hero's of Homer's Iliad in turn, as might be expected, but discuss first the style and then …
Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium
Av Leo Strauss, Seth Benardete
Inbunden, 2001
727 kr
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In this volume Leo Strauss presents a coherent and complete interpretation of Plato's "Symposium", proceeding by meticulous reading, from beginning to end. Strauss, operating on the idea that commentary is an useful method of expounding the truth, sheds light on the meaning of the dialogue and its …
Aristotle On Poetics
Av Seth Benardete, Michael Davis
Inbunden, 2002
225 kr
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Aristotle's much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it anew with a view to rendering Aristotle’s text into English as precisely as possible. A literal translation has …
Archaeology of the Soul – Platonic Readings in Ancient Poetry and Philosophy
Av Seth Benardete, Ronna Burger m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
499 kr
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The Archaeology of the Soul is a testimony to the extraordinary scope of Seth Benardete’s thought. Some essays concern particular authors or texts; others range more broadly and are thematic. Some deal explicitly with philosophy; others deal with epic, lyric, and tragic poetry. Some of these …
Herodotean Inquiries
Häftad, 2009
170 kr
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Herodotus' Inquiries should be regarded as our best and most complete document for pre-Socratic philosophy. Without being a work of philosophy, its plan and intention cannot be understood apart from philosophy. Here an attempt is made to uncover Herodotus' plan and intention and to link them with …
Sacred Transgressions – A Reading of Sophocles` Antigone
Häftad, 2015
185 kr
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This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles’ Antigone is meant to be a reflection on and response to Hegel’s interpretation in the Phenomenology (VI.A.a–b), and includes, in addition, two appendixes dealing with Aeschylus’ Septem. It thus moves within the principles Hegel …
Sacred Transgressions
Inbunden, 2019
304 kr
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This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles' Antigone is meant to be a reflection on and response to Hegel's interpretation in the Phenomenology (VI.A.a-b). It thus moves within the principles Hegel discovers in the play but reinserts them into the play as they show themselves …
