This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic , but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and re

This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volu

This book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features. In doing so, it refers to two

Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato’s famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined

No thinker in the West has had a wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it