Plato''s Stranger - An Essay

Meditation on the character of the Eleatic Stranger in Plato's late dialogues, arguing that the prominent place afforded to this foreigner-the other-represents an important philosophical and political legacy regarding the way thought, and life in the community, is understood.

About the author

Rodolphe Gasché is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His many books include Storytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust, also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Rodolphe Gasche, Rodolphe Gasché
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9781438490335
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9033-5
• No. of pages: 221
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Suny Contemporary Continental
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge