Platos Stranger: An Essay - Rodolphe Gasch Book

  • Author: Rodolphe Gasch
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • Cover Type: Paperback
  • Pages: 222 pages
  • Language: English
  • Genre: Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Philosophy
  • Genre Class: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Political
  • Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Platos late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner-the other-represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.

    P>Review "In addition to offering solid and largely compelling interpretations of the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, Gasch presents us with an intriguing argument that both philosophy and politics, even for Plato, requires an Auseinandersetzung with the other in order to ground itself and allow its movement toward its own self-flourishing. Gasch provides a fascinating and provocative argument that a xenological thinking-a philosophy of Otherness-is located within Platos thought." - S. Montgomery Ewegen, Trinity College"In addition to offering solid and largely compelling interpretations of the Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, Gasch presents us with an intriguing argument that both philosophy and politics, even for Plato, requires an Auseinandersetzung with the other in order to ground itself and allow its movement toward its own self-flourishing. Gasch provides a fascinating and provocative argument that a xenological thinking--a philosophy of Otherness--is located within Platos thought." -- S. Montgomery Ewegen, Trinity College About the Author: Rodolphe Gasch is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His many books include Storytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust, also published by SUNY Press.

    (BK-9781438490342)

    SKU BK-9781438490342
    Barcode # 9781438490342
    Brand SUNY Press
    Artist / Author Rodolphe Gasch
    Shipping Weight 0.3100kg
    Shipping Width 0.150m
    Shipping Height 0.010m
    Shipping Length 0.230m
    Type Paperback

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