Open AccessJohn Sallis, Ed. 2017. Plato’s Statesman: Dialectic, Myth, and Politics. Albany: SUNY. 326pp.
Author(s) -
Romeo Domdii Cliff
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
plato journal/plato
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108
0eISSN - 2183-4105
pISSN - 2079-7567
DOI - 10.14195/2183-4105_20_16
Subject(s) - dialectic , mythology , politics , philosophy , context (archaeology) , phenomenology (philosophy) , character (mathematics) , literature , epistemology , law , history , theology , political science , art , mathematics , archaeology , geometry
The collected volume Plato’s Statesman: Dialectic, Myth, and Politics presents some of the new interesting research being conducted on the Statesman. The volume is edited by John Sallis who is well known for his work in phenomenology, including writings on such authors as Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche and Immanuel Kant, and he has a continental approach to reading Plato. The new research on the Statesman will proceed by ways of the following three points in the collected volume. We will look at the new trend among scholars to read into the Statesman the complete rejection of the existence of an ideal statesman in our contemporary society. Further, we will discuss the unexplored terrains in the dialogue scholars are gravitating to. And finally, we will comment on the fact that all contributors in the volume show a certain degree of sensitivity to the dramatic context of the dialogue and refrain from attributing Plato’s voice to a single character. A brief remark on an aspect of these points will be furnished at the end.