Plato's dialogues: new studies and interpretations

Abstract

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Methods and Principles Chapter 3 Looking for Clues: An Interpretation of Some Literary Aspects of Plato's Two Level Model Chapter 4 Analysis of Meaning: Some Problems and Suggestions Chapter 5 Plato's Dialogues as Subversive Activity Chapter 6 Asebeia and Synousia: The Issues Behind the Indictment of Socrates Chapter 7 Principles of Dramatic and Non-Doctrinal Plato Interpretation Chapter 8 The Hellenistic Obliteration of Plato's Dialogism Part 9 Part II: Interpretations Chapter 10 An Ironic Dilemma, or Incompatible Interpretations of Euthyphro 5 a-b Chapter 11 Framing the Question of Knowledge: Plato's Theaetetus Chapter 12 Pan, the Cicadas, and Plato's Use of Myth in the Phaedrus Chapter 13 Plato's Philosophical Antiope: the Gorgias Chapter 14 How is the Eleatic Stranger of the Sophist Eleatic? Part 15 Part III: Assessment Chapter 16 Four Types of Plato Interpretation Chapter 17 Some Platonic Recollections Chapter 18 In Search of Dialogue Chapter 19 Index