Troubling Play

Kelsey Wood

Description

Troubling Play is a new and illuminating interpretation of Plato's Parmenides—notoriously the most difficult of the dialogues. Showing that the Parmenides is an inquiry into time and the forms of language, author Kelsey Wood notes that the dialogue's suggestion of sophistry is intended to provoke the silently observant Socrates. The young Socrates believes that knowing is prior to existence, but Parmenides ultimately shows him that the meaning of intelligible discourse is derived from existence in time. Although we cannot think apart from intelligible forms, nevertheless, any number of modes of intelligibility are possible. This relation of ideals of intelligibility—the forms of logos—to temporal being is a crucial topic of special relevance to philosophers today.

Wood's detailed methodological analysis ties the Parmenides to other later dialogues such as the Sophist, Theatetus, and Philebus, and also to earlier works such as the Republic and the poem of Parmenides.

Prologue

1. Troubling Play

2. Logos and Existence in the Parmenides

3. The Game Begins

4. From Irony to Comedy

5. If the All Is a Many, Change Is Impossible

6. The Fourth and Fifth Beginnings: The Many

7. Denouement: If the One Is Not

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Métaphysique
• Philosophie antique
• Philosophy
• Ancient philosophy
• Metaphysics

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791482940
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Troubling Play

Meaning and Entity in Plato’sParmenides

Kelsey Wood

State University of New York Press

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

© 2005 State University of New York

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Wood, Kelsey, 1960– Troubling play : meaning and entity in Plato’s Parmenides / Kelsey Wood. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6519-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Plato. Parmenides. 2. Ontology. 3. Dialectic. I. Title.

B378.W66 2005 184—dc22

2004027304

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

This book is dedicated to the memory of J.N. Findlay

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Prologue

1 Troubling Play

Contents

2 Logos and Existence in theParmenides

3 The Game Begins

4 From Irony to Comedy

5 If the All Is a Many, Change Is Impossible

6 The Fourth and Fifth Beginnings: The Many

7 Denouement: If the One Is Not

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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