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Enthusiasm and divine madness : on the Platonic dialogue Phaedrus

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A Helen and Kufrg Wolff bookNew York Harcourt, Brace & World [1964]Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 109pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • B380 .P513
Abstract: 'Plato's famous dialogue, the Phaedrus, was variously subtitled in antiquity: "On Beauty," 'On Love," "On the Psyche.' It is also concerned with the art of rhetoric, of thought and communication....an illuminating and stimulating interpretation of the dialogue....concentrates on the content, bringing the actual situation in the dialogue--Athens and its intellectuals engaged in spirited debate--alive.'
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Jung is quoted, and 'modern depth psychology' referred to, on p. 61.

Transl. from the German by Richarad and Clara Winston

'Plato's famous dialogue, the Phaedrus, was variously subtitled in antiquity: "On Beauty," 'On Love," "On the Psyche.' It is also concerned with the art of rhetoric, of thought and communication....an illuminating and stimulating interpretation of the dialogue....concentrates on the content, bringing the actual situation in the dialogue--Athens and its intellectuals engaged in spirited debate--alive.'

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