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The Thanksgiving Symposium
- A Modern Platonic Dialogue on Love
Engelsk Paperback
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The Thanksgiving Symposium
- A Modern Platonic Dialogue on Love
Engelsk Paperback

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What if Plato''s Symposium took place in present-day America rather than in ancient Athens? The Thanksgiving Symposium imagines this, and makes it happen. Like Plato''s dialogue, The Thanksgiving Symposium focuses on the age-old question: what is the nature of love? In The Thanksgiving Symposium, three men and three women of varying ages and degrees of closeness meet for Thanksgiving dinner. Their particular situations give rise to a discussion of love in the general and the specific, leavened with the normal give and take of social interaction. During the evening, much is discussed and some things are decided. Plato''s dialogue verges on being a play about philosophy rather than a philosophy, people discussing things rather than a philosopher telling us what to conclude. The Thanksgiving Symposium develops this aspect of Plato while offering a new philosophy that responds to the old. Is the result a play? A dialogue? A philosophy? Like Plato''s Symposium, it is all of these at once.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
122
ISBN-13:
9780761839781
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
076183978X
Udg. Dato:
24 dec 2007
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
231mm
Forlag:
University Press of America
Oplagsdato:
24 dec 2007
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