{"product_id":"platos-stranger-an-essay-paperback","title":"Plato's Stranger: An Essay - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRodolphe Gasché\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dramatic introduction in two of Plato's late dialogues--the \u003ci\u003eSophist\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eStatesman\u003c\/i\u003e, both part of a trilogy that also includes the \u003ci\u003eTheaetetus\u003c\/i\u003e--of a stranger, the Eleatic Stranger, who replaces Socrates, is a consequential move, especially since it occurs in the context of decidedly new insights into the philosophical \u003ci\u003elogos\u003c\/i\u003e and life together in a community. The introduction of a radical stranger, a stranger to all native identity, has theoretical implications, and, rather than a rhetorical or merely literary device, is of the order of an argument. \u003ci\u003ePlato's Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e argues that in these late dialogues, Plato bestows on the West a philosophical and political legacy at the core of which the stranger holds a prominent place because it provides the foreigner--the other--with a previously unheard-of constitutive role in the way thinking, as well as life in community, is understood. What is to be learned from these late dialogues is that, without a constitutive relation to otherness, discursive and political life in a community--in other words, also of the way one relates to oneself--remain lacking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRodolphe Gasché\u003c\/b\u003e is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His many books include \u003ci\u003eStorytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by SUNY Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 221\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 02, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42739149635647,"sku":"9781438490342","price":71.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/95e8cd022d84d947292ddfcf685fcbd3.webp?v=1765155708","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/platos-stranger-an-essay-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}