Description: Further DetailsTitle: The SymposiumCondition: NewDescription: 'Perhaps the most entertaining work of philosophy ever written ... the first really systematic and serious attempt to say what love is' John Armstrong, GuardianIn the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge to conventional views by Plato's mentor, Socrates, who advocates transcendence through spiritual love. The Symposium is a deft interweaving of different viewpoints and ideas about the nature of love - as a response to beauty, a cosmic force or a path to goodness.Translated with an Introduction by Christopher GillAuthor: PlatoContributor: Christopher Gill (Introduction by), Christopher Gill (Translated by), Christopher Gill (Notes by)Country/Region of Manufacture: GBEAN: 9780140449273Format: PaperbackGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityISBN: 9780140449273ISBN-10: 0140449272Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Weight: 112gItem Width: 8mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: Penguin ClassicsRelease Date: 02/27/2003Translator: Christopher GillRelease Year: 2003 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Contributor: Christopher Gill (Notes by)
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
EAN: 9780140449273
ISBN: 9780140449273
ISBN-10: 0140449272
Publication Name: The Symposium
Release Date: 02/27/2003
Release Year: 2003
Title: The Symposium
Translator: Christopher Gill
Book Title: Symposium
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2003
Topic: History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Essays
Item Height: 0.3 in
Features: Revised
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy
Item Weight: 4 Oz
Item Length: 7.8 in
Author: Plato
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
