The Phaedrus of Plato

<p>This pioneering translation of Plato's Phaedrus with detailed summary and full philological and exegetical notes taking into consideration all commentaries since Hermias followed by a painstaking dialogical analysis of the text that shows what we must think at every moment in order to understand the thinking that brings the Greek text to life.</p><p><br></p><p>In Kenneth Quandt's treatment Plato's seminal work is allowed to create its own horizon and a new and profoundly unified interpretation emerges: Socrates's conversation with Phaedrus reaches a vision of eros that explains the paradoxes of human nature explodes the zero-sum game of master and slave exposes the crabbed fetishism of the written word and releases the mind to a life of contemplation fixed in a cloudless noon.</p><p><br></p>