Genres in Dialogue

Name: Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521774338
Price: 4942.00 INR
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Plato and the Construct of Philosophy

by Andrea Wilson Nightingale

Cambridge University Press

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In this very original study, the author investigates how Plato "invented" the discipline of philosophy. In order to define and legitimize philosophy, Dr. Nightingale maintains, Plato had to match it against genres of discourse that had authority and currency in democratic Athens. By incorporating traditional genres of poetry and rhetoric into his dialogues, Plato marks the boundaries of philosophy as a discursive and as a social practice.

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