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Missing Socrates: Problems of Plato's Writing
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Missing Socrates: Problems of Plato's Writing
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also provides a dialogue between Plato and Socrates on the question of speech versus writing and a study of the materiality of Plato's writing. Included among the various dialogues and themes developed here are rhetoric and courtroom practice in the
of Socrates; religion, skepticism, and the idea of transcendence in the
; artistic practice and tradition in the
; education and political discipline in the
; and rhetoric, writing, commemoration, and the motives of authorship in
. In each of these discursive settings, Socrates unsuccessfully seeks a place or a mode for philosophy; Farness shows that the dialogues of Plato uncannily supply that lack.