Plato's Statesman : dialectic, myth, and politics / edited by John Sallis.

"The Statesman is among the most widely ranging of Plato's dialogues, bringing together in a single discourse disparate subjects such as politics, mathematics, ontology, dialectic, and myth. The essays in this collection consider these subjects and others, focusing in particular on the dramatic form of the dialogue. They take into account not only what is said but how it is said, by whom and to whom it is said, and when and where it is said. In this way, the contributors approach the text in a manner that responds to the dialogue itself rather than bringing preconceived questions and scholarly debates to bear on it. The essays are especially attuned to the comedic elements that run through much of the dialogue and that are played out in a way that reveals the subject of the comedy. In the Statesman, these comedies reach their climax when the statesman becomes a participant in a comedy of animals and thereby is revealed in his true nature."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Beginnings / John Sllis -- From spontaneity to automaticity : polar (opposite) reversal at statesman 269c-274d / Micheal Nass -- Autochthony, sexual reproduction, and political life in the statesman myth / Sara Brill -- Where have all the shepherds gone? : Socratic withdrawal in Plato's Statesman / S. Montgomery Ewegen -- The time of politics : on the relationship between life and law in Plato's Statesman / Walter A. Brogan -- Nickolas pappas, a little move toward Greek philosophy : reassessing the statesman myth -- Noêsis and logos in the eleatic trilogy, with a focus on the visitor's jokes at Statesman 266AD / Mitchell Miller -- Finding the right concepts : on dialectics in Plato's statesman / Günter Figal -- Paradigm and dialectical inquiry in Plato's statesman / Eric Sanday -- The art of the example in Plato's Statesman / James Risser -- Reconsidering the relations between the Statesman, the philosopher, and the sophist / Noburu Notomi -- Syngrammatology in Plato's Statesman / Robert Metcalf -- Stranger than the stranger : Axiothea / Drew A. Hyland -- On law and the science of politics in Plato's Statesman / Robert C. Bartlett -- Adrift on the boundless sea of unlikeness : sophistry and law -- In the statesman / Rayan Drake -- The philosophers in plato's trilogy / Burt C. Hopkins -- Transformations : platonic mythos and plotinian logos / Gary M. Gurtler.

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