Charles L. Griswold Jr. is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USA.
“Praise for the original edition:This book is a valuable and long
overdue collection of essays which address a central issue in the
reading of Platonic texts: the question of why Plato wrote
dialogues, and what that fact means for our interpretation of
Plato. Views on this issue inform, in one way or another, all our
readings of Plato, and this work performs the valuable service of
collecting a wide range of essays which deal explicitly with the
question. Some of the essays are explicitly methodological; others
give readings of Platonic dialogues which are sensitive to the fact
that they are dialogues. The second half of the work consists of an
interesting and very valuable series of exchanges between readers
of Plato which concern the question of the dialogues as
dialogues.”—L. A. Kosman, Haverford College
“From reviews of the original edition:The essays in this collection
are provocative, even daring on occasion, yet at all times maintain
a remarkably high standard of scholarship. Although the essays and
exchanges focus historically on Plato, they also engage several
larger issues of interpretation, authority, and textuality. This
volume should therefore be relevant not only for specialists in
ancient philosophy but for scholars of literature, literary theory,
hermeneutics, and the humanities in general.”—Review of
Metaphysics
“Since the first printing of this book, several collections of
articles have appeared that share its aims, but it remains one of
the very best. Its contributors are distinguished, and represent
quite different schools of thought on the issue addressed here: how
Plato’s use of the dialogue-form should affect our interpretations
of Plato. The editor, Charles Griswold, makes it his business to
have the contributors meet and talk within the pages of this book.
They yield a little to each other and resist a lot. The result is
instructive. Penn State Press is to be congratulated for making
this truly useful book available once more.”—G. R. F. Ferrari,
University of California, Berkeley
“The republication of this seminal anthology, which editor Charles
Griswold has updated with a useful new preface posing questions for
scholarship to come and with a bibliography of relevant scholarship
since 1988, is very welcome. . . . In form as well as content, this
volume continues to set a standard for volumes of this
kind.”—Mitchell H. Miller, Vassar College
“Griswold's book is a welcome addition to the current literature.
The contributions are for the most part of high quality and are
both thoughtful and stimulating.”—Ancient Philosophy
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