Plato’s Gorgias: Labyrinth and Threads (Outros Títulos) - Softcover

Carvalho, Mario Jorge De; Fidalgo, Tomaz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9892620143 ISBN 13: 9789892620145

Publisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Though at first it may seem to deal with rather specific questions concerning rhetoric, Plato’s Gorgias turns out to be about human life, and what is at stake in it.This apparent “change of subject” – or rather this ambiguity in the dialogue’s subjectmatter – has to do with the fact that the Gorgias is very much like a labyrinth: puzzling, intricate, made of multiple meandering paths in which one can easily getlost, and full of deviations which turn this way and that, of entrances that seem to be dead ends, and of dizzying turns that distort all sense of direction.

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9892620143
• ISBN 13: 9789892620145
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274