Plato And The Erotics Of Narrativity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23155140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David M Halperin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Pages | 93-129 |
| Publication date | 1992-02-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy: Supplementary Volume 1992 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198239512.003.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W4388258286 |
| ISBN | 9780198239512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
One of the most curious and seldom remarked facts about Plato’s Dialogues is that many of them are not, in fact, dialogues. By this I do not mean that Plato's Dialogues are not ‘real’ dialogues or ‘true’ conversations (measured against some normative standard of conversational reciprocity): I am not about to lodge against Plato the routine liberal complaint that he fails to portray genuinely mutual, free-wheeling discussions-choosing to represent, instead, a series of highly asymmetrical exchanges between Socrates (or some other Platonic mouthpiece), who does most of the talking, and various other, more or less co-operative, interlocutors, who (with the refreshing exceptions of Callicles in the Gorgias and Thrasymachus in the first book of the Republic) are largely ‘yes-men’.
Art · Complaint · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Narrativity · Normative · Political science · Reciprocity (cultural anthropology) · SOCRATES · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Law · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2023 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |