Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy

Andrea Wilson Nightingale (Stanford University, California)

Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
14 December 1995
Pages
240
ISBN
9780521482646

Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy

Andrea Wilson Nightingale (Stanford University, California)

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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