In the "Statesman," Plato brings together--only to challenge and
displace--his own crowning contributions to philosophical method,
political theory, and drama. In his 1980 study, reprinted here,
Mitchell Miller employs literary theory and conceptual analysis to
expose the philosophical, political, and pedagogical conflict that
is the underlying context of the dialogue, revealing that its
chaotic variety of movements is actually a carefully harmonized act
of realizing the mean. The original study left one question
outstanding: what specifically, in the metaphysical order of
things, motivated the nameless Visitor from Elea to abandon
bifurcation for his consummating non-bifurcatory division of
fifteen kinds at the end of the dialogue? Miller addressed in a
separate essay, first published in 1999 and reprinted here. In it,
he opens the horizon of interpretation to include the new
metaphysics of the" Parmenides," the "Philebus," and the "unwritten
teachings."
"This study demonstrates how the "Statesman" is the culminating
expression of Plato's lifelong effort, both in Athens and in the
Academy, to bring metaphysical insight to the unending political
crisis of his times."The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman a
trail-blazing work. While not every reader will agree with the
lessons Miller himself draws from this approach, none should fail
to be impressed by its interpretive power. All this is exciting
stuff. The interpretive pathway on which Miller has embarked has
the potential for changing the face of scholarship on the late
Platonic dialogues. Parmenides [Publishing] is to be commended for
making these two important contributions available under a single
cover." --"Kenneth Sayre, Professor of Philosophy, University of
Notre Dame"
"Miller casts considerable light on virtually every aspect of the
dialogue. . . . All in all, this book is an outstanding
contribution to our understanding of the Statesman." --"Stanley
Rosen, Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy, Boston
University"
MITCHELL MILLER is Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. He
is the author of "Plato's "Parmenides.
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