Plato's Symposium: A Critical Guide

Author:   Pierre Destrée (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) ,  Zina Giannopoulou (University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   280
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
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Author:   Pierre Destrée (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) ,  Zina Giannopoulou (University of California, Irvine)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107525696


ISBN 10:   1107525691
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
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1. Narrative temporalities and models of desire Zina Giannopoulou; 2. Unfamiliar voices: harmonizing the non-Socratic speeches and Plato's psychology Jeremy Reid; 3. A doctor's folly: diagnosing the speech of Eryximachus Franco V. Trivigno; 4. Aristophanic tragedy Suzanne Obdrzalek; 5. Divinization David Sedley; 6. Why Agathon's beauty matters Francisco Gonzalez; 7. Erōs and the pursuit of form F. C. C. Sheffield; 8. The mortal soul and immortal happiness Andrea Nightingale; 9. A fetish for fixity? Christopher Shields; 10. Generating in beauty for the sake of immortality: personal love and the goals of the lover Anthony W. Price; 11. Alcibiades the profane: images of the mysteries Radcliffe Edmonds; 12. How does contemplation make you happy? An ethical reading of Diotima's speech Pierre Destrée; 13. Eudaimonism and Platonic erōs Richard Kraut.

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Pierre Destrée is Associate Research Professor in Philosophy at Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He has co-edited several volumes on ancient ethics, politics, and aesthetics, including The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Politics (Cambridge, 2013). Zina Giannopoulou is Associate Professor in Classics at the University of California, Irvine. Her publications include Plato's Theaetetus as a Second Apology (2013).

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