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Thinking of Death in Plato's Euthydemus

Gwenda-lin Grewal
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      Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy's fate arrives in the form of Socrates' encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes' Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and pluralnumber in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal's close reading explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair's back-and-forth arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality, thinking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorustake this to an extreme, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy's tenuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito's implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athenian laws-and in the drama itself, which appears to take place in Hades. Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thinking: the farce ofperfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city's sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities, nuances, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader's access to the dialogue's mysteries.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Gwenda-lin Grewal EAN: 9780192849571 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 558 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-04-07 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical WIDTH: 160 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Ancient history, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Gwenda-lin Grewal is the Onassis Lecturer in Ancient Greek Thought and Language at the New School for Social Research. Her publications include English translations of Plato's Phaedo (2018) and Cratylus (forthcoming) and the book Fashion | Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion (2022). She is also the recipient of the Blegen Research Fellowship in Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship inHumanities at Yale University, and has held previous teaching positions at the University of Dallas and Sarah Lawrence College.
      Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy's fate arrives in the form of Socrates' encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes' Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and pluralnumber in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal's close reading explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair's back-and-forth arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality, thinking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorustake this to an extreme, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy's tenuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito's implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athenian laws-and in the drama itself, which appears to take place in Hades. Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thinking: the farce ofperfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city's sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities, nuances, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader's access to the dialogue's mysteries.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Gwenda-lin Grewal EAN: 9780192849571 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 558 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-04-07 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical WIDTH: 160 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Ancient history, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Gwenda-lin Grewal is the Onassis Lecturer in Ancient Greek Thought and Language at the New School for Social Research. Her publications include English translations of Plato's Phaedo (2018) and Cratylus (forthcoming) and the book Fashion | Sense: On Philosophy and Fashion (2022). She is also the recipient of the Blegen Research Fellowship in Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship inHumanities at Yale University, and has held previous teaching positions at the University of Dallas and Sarah Lawrence College.

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