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Plato's conversations of Socrates are among the most accessible philosophical texts most of us have ever read, yet the more one pursues the art or intelligibility of this writing, the more mysterious and paradoxical the Platonic texts become. What does it mean to study Plato, not philosophically as a maker of arguments, not poetically as a maker of dialogues, but literally as a maker of texts? This is a question that Jacques Derrida has made his own, and in this book Farness creates a dialogue with Derrida on Plato's texts. __Missing Socrates__ also provides a dialogue between Plato and Socrates on the question of speech versus writing and a study of the materiality of Plato's writing. Included among the various dialogues and themes developed here are rhetoric and courtroom practice in the __Apology__ of Socrates; religion, skepticism, and the idea of transcendence in the __Euthyphro__; artistic practice and tradition in the __Ion__; education and political discipline in the __Charmides__; and rhetoric, writing, commemoration, and the motives of authorship in __Phaedrus__. In each of these discursive settings, Socrates unsuccessfully seeks a place or a mode for philosophy; Farness

Who reads Missing Socrates : Problems of Plato's Writing?

Author

Jay Farness

Publisher

Penn State University Press : Made available through hoopla

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271007229

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Social Science