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9781680531589 Academic Inspection Copy
  • The Gorgias of Plato

  • In its Golden Age, Athens was both the most powerful and most democratic of Ancient Greece's city-states. This exalted status called into being a new art - the art of oratory - with which the wealth and prominence of a political career could be won by mere speech. Itinerant teachers of the new techniques of persuasion bedazzled ambitious men with ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781680531589 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: ACADEMICA PRESS
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  • Local release date: 28/02/2025
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  • Categories: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]
9781680538229 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Inventing the Philosopher

  • An Essay on the Dialogues of Plato
  • In this penetrating and graceful analysis, Monique Dixsaut reveals that the project of Plato's dialogues is to "invent the philosopher" in a sense the term never again had. The dialogues show, by dramatic and dialectical instantiation, that a person seeking truth engenders a coherent system intended to determine what is. Since one cannot judge a ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781680538229 (Hardback)
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  • Local release date: 01/05/2023
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  • Categories: History [HB]Philosophy [HP]Politics & government [JP]
9781680538748 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Letters To My Grandchildren

  • Distinguished Austrian sociologist Reinhold Knoll's letters to his grandchildren, written daily during the Covid-19 pandemic, evolved into an obituary of European culture, politics, and society. They also embody a gesture of thanks to the United States, which took a different path from Europe and then saved it in World War I and World War II. ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781680538748 (Hardback)
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  • Local release date: 28/10/2022
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  • Categories: Philosophy [HP]Sociology [JHB]Politics & government [JP]
9781680531084 Academic Inspection Copy
  • The Phaedrus of Plato

  • A Translation with Notes and Dialogical Analysis
  • This pioneering translation of Plato's Phaedrus, with detailed summary and full philological and exegetical notes taking into consideration all commentaries since Hermias, followed by a painstaking dialogical analysis of the text that shows what we must think at every moment in order to understand the thinking that brings the Greek text to life. ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781680531084 (Hardback)
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  • Local release date: 28/11/2020
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  • Categories: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]Ancient Greece [1QDAG]
9781680534696 Academic Inspection Copy
  • The Revelation of Art-Religion

  • Art's original function in Christian Europe is exemplified by the way the Eastern Icon served as a window to the divine. After the Great Schism of 1054, several developments in Western Christianity separated art from church, cult, and religion. Art continued to evolve independently of the Roman Catholic Church through the Renaissance, with a ......
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  • Local release date: 28/02/2019
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  • Categories: The arts: general issues [AB]
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