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Om Plato's Stranger

The dramatic introduction in two of Plato's late dialogues¿the Sophist and the Statesman, both part of a trilogy that also includes the Theaetetus¿of a stranger, the Eleatic Stranger, who replaces Socrates, is a consequential move, especially since it occurs in the context of decidedly new insights into the philosophical logos and life together in a community. The introduction of a radical stranger, a stranger to all native identity, has theoretical implications, and, rather than a rhetorical or merely literary device, is of the order of an argument. Plato's Stranger argues that in these late dialogues, Plato bestows on the West a philosophical and political legacy at the core of which the stranger holds a prominent place because it provides the foreigner¿the other¿with a previously unheard-of constitutive role in the way thinking, as well as life in community, is understood. What is to be learned from these late dialogues is that, without a constitutive relation to otherness, discursive and political life in a community¿in other words, also of the way one relates to oneself¿remain lacking.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781438490342
  • Bindende:
  • Paperback
  • Sider:
  • 222
  • Utgitt:
  • 2. april 2023
  • Dimensjoner:
  • 152x14x229 mm.
  • Vekt:
  • 368 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
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The dramatic introduction in two of Plato's late dialogues¿the Sophist and the Statesman, both part of a trilogy that also includes the Theaetetus¿of a stranger, the Eleatic Stranger, who replaces Socrates, is a consequential move, especially since it occurs in the context of decidedly new insights into the philosophical logos and life together in a community. The introduction of a radical stranger, a stranger to all native identity, has theoretical implications, and, rather than a rhetorical or merely literary device, is of the order of an argument. Plato's Stranger argues that in these late dialogues, Plato bestows on the West a philosophical and political legacy at the core of which the stranger holds a prominent place because it provides the foreigner¿the other¿with a previously unheard-of constitutive role in the way thinking, as well as life in community, is understood. What is to be learned from these late dialogues is that, without a constitutive relation to otherness, discursive and political life in a community¿in other words, also of the way one relates to oneself¿remain lacking.

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