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Plato's "Statesman" - The Web of Politics (Paperback, New Ed)
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Plato's "Statesman" - The Web of Politics (Paperback, New Ed)
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In this book an eminent scholar presents a rich and penetrating
analysis of the Statesman, perhaps Plato's most challenging work.
Stanley Rosen contends that the main theme of this dialogue is a
definition of the art of politics and the degree to which political
experience is subject either to the rule of sound judgment or to
technical construction. The Statesman, like Plato's earlier
Sophist, features a Stranger who tries to refute Socrates. Much of
his conversation is devoted to a minute analysis of the art of
weaving, selected by the Stranger as a paradigm of the royal art of
politics, for he conceives of the city as an artifact. But the
Stranger's successive efforts to find a method for defining the art
of politics are failures, because there is no fitting model or
technique of measurement by which to grasp politics that includes
within its scope the totality of human existence-there is, suggests
Plato, no technical construction of politics. Rosen reflects on the
relevance of Plato to contemporary debates about political
reconstruction on the one hand and about the deeper issue of the
supposed end of modernity on the other. He argues that, far from
being the father of essentialism and the reification of human
nature, as others have suggested, Plato elaborates a rhetoric of
politics as self-defense against nature. Just as weaving produces
clothing to protect the body against the elements, so the statesman
must produce myths or local models to protect the soul against the
body.
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