{"product_id":"platos-letters-the-political-challenges-of-the-philosophic-life-hardback-9781501772894","title":"Plato's \"Letters\"; The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life (Hardback) 9781501772894","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlato's \"Letters\"\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePlato (Author), Ariel Helfer (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501772894\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e318 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlato's Letters [...] provokes us to question again what we think we know about how and why Plato wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Review of Politics)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlato's \"Letters\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, complete with extensive notes on historical context and issues of manuscript transmission.\u003c\/b\u003e His analysis presents a necessary perspective for readers who wish to study Plato's \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e as a work of Platonic philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCenturies of debate over the provenance and significance of Plato's \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e have led to the common view that the\u003ci\u003e Letters\u003c\/i\u003e is a motley collection of jewels and scraps from within and without Plato's literary estate. In a series of original essays, Helfer describes how the \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e was written as a single work, composed with a unity of purpose and a coherent teaching, marked throughout by Plato's artfulness and insight and intended to occupy an important place in the Platonic corpus. Viewed in this light, the Letters is like an unusual epistolary novel, a manner of semifictional and semiautobiographical literary-philosophic experiment, in which Plato sought to provide his most demanding readers with guidance in thinking more deeply about the meaning of his own career as a philosopher, writer, and political advisor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlato's \"Letters\"\u003c\/i\u003e not only defends what Helfer calls the \"literary unity thesis\" by reviewing the scholarly history pertaining to the Platonic letters but also brings out the political philosophic lessons revealed in the Letters. As a result, \u003ci\u003ePlato's \"Letters\"\u003c\/i\u003e recovers and rehabilitates what has been until now a minority view concerning the \u003ci\u003eLetters\u003c\/i\u003e, according to which this misunderstood Platonic text will be of tremendous new importance for the study of Platonic political philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Plato's Letters\u003cbr\u003e Letter One\u003cbr\u003e Letter Two\u003cbr\u003e Letter Three\u003cbr\u003e Letter Four\u003cbr\u003e Letter Five \u003cbr\u003e Letter Six\u003cbr\u003e Letter Seven\u003cbr\u003e Letter Eight\u003cbr\u003e Letter Nine\u003cbr\u003e Letter Ten\u003cbr\u003e Letter Eleven\u003cbr\u003e Letter Twelve\u003cbr\u003e Letter Thirteen\u003cbr\u003e INTERPRETIVE ESSAY: The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart One: Political Counsel in Plato's Letters\u003cbr\u003e Part Two: The Presentation and Substance of Platonic Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: Plato in Syracuse\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676621304088,"sku":"9781501772894","price":31.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/platos-letters-the-political-challenges-of-the-philosophic-life-hardback-9781501772894","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}