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How to Talk about Love

An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers

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Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2025
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25688-7 (ISBN)
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Explore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato’s great dramatic work, the Symposium

What is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, love has been described, admired, lamented, and dissected in endless ways. Is love based on physical attraction? Does it bring out our better selves? How does it relate to sex? Is love divine? Plato’s Symposium is one of the oldest, most influential, and most profound explorations of such questions—it is even the source of the idea of “Platonic love.” How to Talk about Love introduces and presents the key passages and central ideas of Plato’s philosophical dialogue in a lively and highly readable new translation, which also features the original Greek on facing pages.

The Symposium is set at a fictional drinking party during which prominent Athenians engage in a friendly competition by delivering improvised speeches in praise of Eros, the Greek god of love and sex. The aristocrat Phaedrus, the legal expert Pausanias, the physician Eryximachus, the comic playwright Aristophanes, and the tragic poet Agathon—each by turn celebrates different aspects of love before Socrates proposes not to praise love but to tell the truth about it. In the final speech, the politician and libertine Alcibiades argues that Socrates himself is the epitome of love.

Deftly capturing the essence and spirit of Plato’s masterpiece, How to Talk about Love makes the Symposium more accessible and enjoyable than ever before.

Armand D’Angour is professor of classics at Jesus College, University of Oxford. He is the editor and translator of How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking (Princeton), Socrates in Love, and The Greeks and the New.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
Übersetzer Armand D'Angour
Zusatzinfo 1 b/w illus.
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 114 x 171 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 0-691-25688-8 / 0691256888
ISBN-13 978-0-691-25688-7 / 9780691256887
Zustand Neuware
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