The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues (BPSS)

[Gabriele Cornelli]

I am pleased to announce that Brill Plato Studies Series second volume is out: 

Margalit Finkelberg. The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues

In The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato’s Dialogues Margalit Finkelberg offers the first narratological analysis of all of Plato’s transmitted dialogues. The book explores the dialogues as works of literary fiction, giving special emphasis to such topics as narrative levels, focalization, narrative frame, and metalepsis. The main conclusion of the book is that in Plato the plurality of the speakers’ opinions is not accompanied by a plurality of points of view. Only one perspective is available, that of the narrator. Contrary to the widespread view, Plato’s dialogues cannot be considered multivocal, or “dialogic” in Bakhtin’s sense. By skillful use of narrative voice, Plato unobtrusively regulates the readers’ reception and response. The narrator is the dialogue’s gatekeeper, a filter whose main function is to control how the dialogue is received by the reader by sustaining a certain perspective of it.

Margalit Finkelberg, Ph.D. (1985), Hebrew University, is Professor of Classics (Emerita) at Tel Aviv University. She has published monographs and numerous articles on ancient Greek subjects, including The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (Clarendon Press: Oxford 1998) and Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 2005).

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Brill's Plato Studies Series

Editors: Gabriele Cornelli and Gábor Betegh

Brill’s Plato Studies Series aims to gather together the most recent and relevant contributions, in order to identify debates and trends within the study of Plato and to provide a holistic understanding of the wide range of issues related to Plato’s philosophy. Of special significance for the series will be the examination of Plato’s literary style and its relationship to his theoretical project as, perhaps, one of the central problems in the study of Plato and Ancient Philosophy as a whole. Even after two thousand years there is still no consensus about why Plato expresses his ideas in such a unique style and the series will aim to address this question. In addition, the Series will warmly welcome contributions focusing on internal and recurrent issues like the relation between myth and philosophy, language, epistemology and ontology in Plato’s work. Special attention will also be given to new interpretative challenges and recent hermeneutical trends, which have emerged from the globalization of current Platonic studies. These new approaches to Plato are likely to change the future frame of Platonic scholarship, providing instruments and renewed impulses for the generations of philosophers to come.

Gabriele Cornelli

Coordenador da Cátedra UNESCO Archai / UnB

Universidade de Brasília

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Metafísica/UnB

70910-900 Brasília - DF 

Brasil

+55 (61) 3107-7040

corn...@unb.br

[Gabriele Cornelli]

I am pleased to announce that Brill's Plato Studies Series forth volume is out:

Emotions in Plato

Brill's Plato Studies Series, Volume: 4
Editors: Laura Candiotto and Olivier Renaut

Emotions (pathè) such as anger, fear, shame, and envy, but also pity, wonder, love and friendship have long been underestimated in Plato’s philosophy. The aim of Emotions in Plato is to provide a consistent account of the role of emotions in Plato’s psychology, epistemology, ethics and political theory. The volume focuses on three main issues: taxonomy of emotions, their epistemic status, and their relevance for the ethical and political theory and practice. This volume, which is the first edited volume entirely dedicated to emotions in Plato’s philosophy, shows how Plato, in many aspects, was positively interested in these affective states in order to support the rule of reason.

Laura Candiotto, PhD. (2011), Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin, Germany, published many articles on emotions in Plato and in contemporary philosophy; she recently edited The Value of Emotions for Knowledge (Palgrave, 2019).

Olivier Renaut, PhD. (2007), is Maître de conférences at Université Paris Nanterre in France. He published a comprehensive study of thumos in Plato entitled Platon, La Médiation des émotions. L’éducation du thymos dans les dialogues (Vrin, 2014).


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Why Plato Comes First
   Laura Candiotto and Olivier Renaut

Part 1: For a Taxonomy of Plato’s Emotions

1 Epistemic Wonder and the Beginning of the Enquiry: Plato’s Theaetetus (155d2-4) and Its Wider Significance
 Laura Candiotto and Vasilis Politis

2 The Feel of the Real: Perceptual Encounters in Plato’s Critique of Poetry
 Pia Campeggiani

3 Why Do Itches Itch? Bodily Pain in the Socratic Theory of Motivation
 Freya Möbus

4 Emotions in Context: “Risk” as Condition for Emotion
 Stefano Maso

Part 2: Plato’s Emotions between Rationality and Irrationality

5 Emotions and Rationality in theTimaeus(Ti. 42a–b, 69c–72e)
 Olivier Renaut

6 On the Desire for Drink in Plato and the Platonist Tradition
 Lidia Palumbo and Anna Motta

7 Plato’s Seasick Steersman: On (Not) Being Overwhelmed by Fear in Plato’s Laws
 Myrthe L. Bartels

8 The Dialogue between the Emotions in the Platonic Corpus
 Karine Tordo-Rombaut

9 Love, Speech and Charm in Plato's Charmides: Reading the Dialogue through Emotions
 Carla Francalanci

Part 3: The Ethical and Political Value of Plato’s Emotions

10 The Notion of Φθόνος in Plato
 Luc Brisson

11 On Mild Envy and Self-deceit (Phlb. 47d–50e)
 Beatriz Bossi

12 Αἰσχύνη and the Λογιστικόν in Plato’s Republic
 Chiara Militello

13 Shame and Virtue in Plato’s Laws: Two Kinds of Fear and the Drunken Puppet
 Julia Pfefferkorn

14 Loving and Living Well: the Importance of Shame in Plato’s Phaedrus
 Simon Scott

15 Plato on the Role of Anger in Our Intellectual and Moral Development
 Marta Jimenez

16 Platonic Pity, or Why Compassion Is Not a Platonic Virtue
 Rachana Kamtekar

17 Love and the City: Eros and Philia in Plato’s Laws
 Frisbee C.C. Sheffield

 Afterword: The Invention of Emotion?
  David Konstan

 Index of Modern Authors
 Index of Relevant Passages
 Index of Subjects

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Brill's Plato Studies Series

Editors: Gabriele Cornelli and Gábor Betegh

Brill’s Plato Studies Series aims to gather together the most recent
and relevant contributions, in order to identify debates and trends
within the study of Plato and to provide a holistic understanding of
the wide range of issues related to Plato’s philosophy. Of special
significance for the series will be the examination of Plato’s
literary style and its relationship to his theoretical project as,
perhaps, one of the central problems in the study of Plato and Ancient
Philosophy as a whole. Even after two thousand years there is still no
consensus about why Plato expresses his ideas in such a unique style
and the series will aim to address this question. In addition, the
Series will warmly welcome contributions focusing on internal and
recurrent issues like the relation between myth and philosophy,
language, epistemology and ontology in Plato’s work. Special attention
will also be given to new interpretative challenges and recent
hermeneutical trends, which have emerged from the globalization of
current Platonic studies. These new approaches to Plato are likely to
change the future frame of Platonic scholarship, providing instruments
and renewed impulses for the generations of philosophers to come.

Gabriele Cornelli
Associate Professor - Philosophy Department
Postgraduate Programme in Metaphysics
Archai UNESCO Chair on the Plural Origins of the Western Thought - Director
Universidade de Brasilia

[Gabriele Cornelli]

I am pleased to announce that Brill's Plato Studies Series fifth volume is out, open access:

Plato’s Timaeus: Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium Platonicum Pragense
Brill's Plato Studies Series, Volume: 5
Editors: Chad Jorgenson, Filip Karfík, and Štěpán Špinka

Plato's 'Timaeus' brings together a number of studies from both leading Plato specialists and up-and-coming researchers from across Europe. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the literary form of the work to the ontology of sense perception and the status of medicine in Timaeus' account. Although informed by a commitment to methodological diversity, the collection as a whole forms an organic unity, opening fresh perspectives on widely read passages, while shedding new light on less frequently discussed topics. The volume thus provides a valuable resource for students and researchers at all levels, whether their interest bears on the Timaeus as a whole or on a particular passage.

Chad Jorgenson, Ph.D. (2015), University of Fribourg, studied in Fribourg, Berlin, and Cambridge, and was a visiting researcher in Paris, Rome, Munich, and Pisa. He has published articles on Ancient Greek and Classical Arabic philosophy, including the Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought(CUP, 2018)

Filip Karfík, Ph.D. (1996), Charles University in Prague, is Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Fribourg. He has published monographs and articles on ancient and modern philosophy, including Die Beseelung des Kosmos (Saur, 2004).

Štěpán Špinka, Ph.D. (1998), Charles University in Prague, is Associate Professor of Ancient Philosophy at that university. He has published articles and monographs on Plato, including The Soul and Evil in the 'Phaedo' and The Soul and Beauty in the 'Phaedrus' (OIKOYMENH, 2009, in Czech).


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Genos, chōra et guerre dans le prologue du Timée-Critias
  Tanja Ruben

Die grosse Rede des Timaios – ein Beispiel wahrer Rhetorik?
  Lucius Hartmann

Panteles zōion e pantelōs on: Vita, anima e movimento intellegibile nel Timeo (e nel Sofista)
  Francesco Fronterotta

How to Make a Soul in the Timaeus
  Luc Brisson

Planets and Time: A Timaean Puzzle
  Karel Thein

The Day, the Month, and the Year: What Plato Expects from Astronomy
  István M. Bodnár

Bodies and Space in the Timaeus
  Ondřej Krása

Does Plato Advance a Bundle Theory in the Timaeus?
  George Karamanolis

Matter Doesn’t Matter: On the Status of Bodies in the Timaeus (30a–32b and 53c–61c)
  Gerd Van Riel

An Unnoticed Analogy between the Timaeus and the Laws
  Marwan Rashed

What is Perceptible in Plato’s Timaeus?
  Filip Karfík

Plato on Illness in the Phaedo, the Republic, and the Timaeus
  Gábor Betegh

Responsibility, Causality, and Will in the Timaeus
  Chad Jorgenson

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