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The Oxford Handbook of Plato (Oxford Handbooks)
(Edited By Gail Fine)
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Description for The Oxford Handbook of Plato (Oxford Handbooks)
hardcover. The Oxford Handbook of Plato offers 20 chapters, newly commissioned and written by leading scholars, on Plato's dialogues and the basic philosophical issues of interest to Plato which remain central in philosophy to this day. Editor(s): Fine, Gail. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 180 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1219. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular area. Specially commissioned essays from leading international figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The twenty-one newly commissioned articles in the Oxford ... Read more
The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and state-of-the-art survey of current thinking and research in a particular area. Specially commissioned essays from leading international figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The twenty-one newly commissioned articles in the Oxford ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
OUP USA
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195182903
SKU
KSG0034486
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About (Edited By Gail Fine)
Gail Fine is Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University and Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. She is the author of On Ideas (1993) and of Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays (2003), and the editor of Plato 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology and of Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion and the Soul (Oxford University Press 1999), both ... Read more
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Plato (Oxford Handbooks)
The collection succeeds remarkably well in offering fresh perspectives on a number of themes in Plato's work while avoiding excessive scholarly wrangling or overly technical discussions of individual passages... the collection accomplishes what should be its primary purpose
turning readers toward Plato with a fresh set of interpretive perspectives and questions for further exploration.
Ravi Sharma, Bryn Mawr ... Read more
turning readers toward Plato with a fresh set of interpretive perspectives and questions for further exploration.
Ravi Sharma, Bryn Mawr ... Read more