“Verba manent” su platone e il linguaggio
ISSN: 2611-3562
Language: Italian, Greek
Publisher: Paolo Loffredo Iniziative Editoriali
Description
“Verba manent” su platone e il linguaggio
I gather in this volume some of my recent essays on the Platonic philosophy of language. These are reports held at international conferences and therefore already published in the proceedings of those conferences. Because of their lack of availability in the original locations, in many cases abroad, I thought to bring them together to be easily accessible for students, scholars and simple readers. Their common thread is the very high interest that - for the entire duration of his life - Plato nourished for words: for their visual nature, so to speak immediately semantics; for the linguistic, rhetorical, grammatical and aesthetic questions, which never in the dialogues of Plato are specialized topics of this or that discipline, but always and only problems of philosophy. It is possible to explain this interest starting from an interpretation of the famous passage of the Phaedrus in which the philosopher pronounces his critique of writing. This step lends itself to starting from a unitary interpretation of the Platonic philosophy of language, because, in turn, it requires to be read against the background of the historical-cultural context in which it was conceived.
