Reading Plato av Thomas A. Szlezak

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<EM>Reading Plato</EM> offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues, providing an invaluable text for any student of Plato''s philosophy.<BR>Taking as a starting point the critique of writing in the <EM>Phaedrus</EM> -- where Socrates argues that a book cannot choose its reader nor can it defend itself against misinterpretation -- <EM>Reading Plato</EM> offers solutions to the problems of interpreting the dialogues. In this ground-breaking book, Thomas A. Szlezak persuasively argues that the dialogues are designed to stimulate philosophical enquiry and to elevate philosophy to the realm of oral dialectic.