Dialogue and dialectic : eight hermeneutical studies on Plato
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1980
- xv, 221 p. ; 23 cm
Includes index. Translated from German
The 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.