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Plato's dialectic at play : argument, structure, and myth in the Symposium / Kevin Corrigan and Elena Glazov-Corrigan.
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Corrigan, Kevin
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Corrigan, Elena
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Penn State University Press : Made available through hoopla,
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Table of Contents:
Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Apollodorus's Prologue: An Imitation of an Imitation
1.1 The Historical Frame
1.2 Apollodorus and Mimetic Narrative
1.3 The Force of Hybris
1.4 Malakos versus Manikos: Soft or Mad?
1.5 Anachronisms?
2. Aristodemus's Prologue: The Destruction and Transformation of the Factual Frame of Reference
2.1 The Story
2.2 Sufficiency and Beauty: Emerging Criteria for Judgment
2.3 The Spatial Order?
2.4 Mimetic versus Hubristic: The Destruction and Transformation of the Factual Narrative
2.5 Sophistic Education in the Context of Other Dialogues: Protagoras, Phaedo, Republic
2.6 Between Religious Observance and the Cycle of Opposites
2.7 "The Father of the Discourse"
3. The Order of the Speeches: Formulating the Problem
3.1 Eros
3.2 Encomium
3.3 The Problem of the Significance of the Early Speeches
4. From Character to Speech: The Early Speeches and Their Significance
4.1 Phaedrus: The Ardent Apprentice, but Confused Mythologue
4.2 Pausanias: The Sophistic Sociologue
4.3 Hiccups and Eryximachus, the Homogenic Doctor-Scientist
4.4 Aristophanes: The Poet as Educator
4.4.1 Aristophanes' Speech and Socrates' Criticism of Mimetic Art in the Republic 70
4.4.2 The Possibility of Anachronism and Plato's Vanishing Signature
4.4.3 Aristophanes' Speech as a Parody of Philosophical Dialectic
4.4.4 Aristophanes' Speech and Individual Identity
4.4.5 Aristophanes' Hiccups Revisited
4.5 Agathon: The Sophistic Theologue as the "Climax" of an Unselfcritical Tradition
4.5.1 Advance over the Previous Speakers?
4.5.2 Agathon as Theologue Without Need
4.5.3 The Shadow of the "Good": Agathon's Portrait in the Context of the Republic
4.6 Conclusion
5. Diotima-Socrates: Mythical Thought in the Making
5.1 Introduction: The Problem
5.2 The Elenchus of Agathon and the Question of Truth
5.3 The Role of Diotima
5.4 Eros-Daimôn
5.5 Diotima and the Art of Mythmaking Revisited: The Birth of Eros
5.6 Love: Relation or Substance?
5.7 Rhetoric and Dialectic
5.8 Criticism of Aristophanes and Agathon
5.9 The Curious Case of Procreation in the Beautiful
5.10 The Concluding Sections of the Lesser Mysteries
5.11 Preliminary Conclusion
6. The Greater Mysteries and the Structure of the Symposium So Far
6.1 The Movement of Ascent: Structure
6.2 The Movement of Ascent and the Earlier Speeches
6.3 Immortality and God-Belovedness
6.4 Overall Conclusion
6.4.1 "Platonic Love": The View So Far
7. Alcibiades and the Conclusion of the Symposium: The Test and Trial of Praise
7.1 The Figure of Dionysus and the Face of Socrates
7.2 The Role of Alcibiades
7.3 The Test of Praise
7.4 The Trial of Praise
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