Plato's Stranger (eBook)

An Essay

Rodolphe Gasche (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
221 Seiten
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9035-9 (ISBN)

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The dramatic introduction in two of Plato's late dialogues-the Sophist and the Statesman, both part of a trilogy that also includes the Theaetetus-of a stranger, the Eleatic Stranger, who replaces Socrates, is a consequential move, especially since it occurs in the context of decidedly new insights into the philosophical logos and life together in a community. The introduction of a radical stranger, a stranger to all native identity, has theoretical implications, and, rather than a rhetorical or merely literary device, is of the order of an argument. Plato's Stranger argues that in these late dialogues, Plato bestows on the West a philosophical and political legacy at the core of which the stranger holds a prominent place because it provides the foreigner-the other-with a previously unheard-of constitutive role in the way thinking, as well as life in community, is understood. What is to be learned from these late dialogues is that, without a constitutive relation to otherness, discursive and political life in a community-in other words, also of the way one relates to oneself-remain lacking.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2022
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Zusatzinfo: Total Illustrations: 0
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• ISBN-10: 1-4384-9035-6 / 1438490356
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-9035-9 / 9781438490359