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Thinking of Death in Plato's Euthydemus - A Close Reading and New Translation (Hardcover)
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Thinking of Death in Plato's Euthydemus - A Close Reading and New Translation (Hardcover)
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Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues
that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of
philosophy's fate arrives in the form of Socrates' encounter with
the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who
appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes'
Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody, as
Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and plural
number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal's close reading explores how the
structure of the dialogue and the pair's back-and-forth arguments
bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive
remove from reality, thinking simulates death even as it cannot
conceive of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this
to an extreme, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and
sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substance. The
Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy's tenuous relationship to
political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito's
implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athenian
laws-and in the drama itself, which appears to take place in Hades.
Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death
of thinking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity
of the city's sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of
the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical
ambiguities, nuances, and wit in ways that substantially expand the
reader's access to the dialogue's mysteries.
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