Plato and the Question of Beauty - (Studies in Continental Thought) by Drew A Hyland (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This new reading of Plato provides a serious investigation into the meaning of beauty and places it at the very heart of philosophy.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Drew A. Hyland, one of Continental philosophy's keenest interpreters of Plato, takes up the question of beauty in three Platonic dialogues, the <i>Hippias Major, Symposium, </i> and <i>Phaedrus.</i> What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, and Hyland's close readings show that Plato ultimately gives up on the possibility of a definition. Plato's failure, however, tells us something important about beauty--that it cannot be reduced to <i>logos.</i> Exploring questions surrounding love, memory, and ideal form, Hyland draws out the connections between beauty, the possibility of philosophy, and philosophical living. This new reading of Plato provides a serious investigation into the meaning of beauty and places it at the very heart of philosophy.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>If beauty, as Hyland shows to be the case in the dialogues, is the phenomenon most suited to awaken and energize the philosophic eros of the soul, then not only are Plato's dialogues beautiful, but so too is Hyland's new book about the dialogues, and precisely because it so clearly reveals their beauty. . . . Hyland has brought the spirit of philosophy in the dialogues to life as few others have done--and so given us a gift very much in the spirit of Plato's own. Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2010</p>-- "International Journal of the Classical Tradition"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Drew A. Hyland is Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College. He is editor (with John Panteleimon Manoussakis) of <i>Heidegger and the Greeks</i> (IUP, 2006).</p>
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