Rhapsody of Philosophy: Dialogues with Plato in Contemporary Thought

by Max Statkiewicz

This book proposes to rethink the relationship between philosophy and literature through an engagement with Plato's dialogues. The dialogues have been seen as the source of a long tradition that subordinates poetry to philosophy, but they may also be approached as a medium for understanding how to overcome this opposition. Paradoxically, Plato then becomes an ally in the attempt "to overturn Platonism," which Gilles Deleuze famously defined as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271035412
• ISBN13: 9780271035413
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"