Dialogue and Dialectic
Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780300029833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author approaches Plato's dialogues as live discussions in which the concrete concerns of the participants define the horizons of discourse. He takes up such perplexing problems of Plato's though as the role of poetry in the state and the theory of ideal numbers and brings to them a fresh understanding. With its emphasis on the dialogue form and the dramatic situation, this work complements the main tendencies of the analytical tradition which dominates contemporary Anglo-Saxon writing on Plato.