{"product_id":"missing-socrates","title":"Missing Socrates","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlato's conversations of Socrates are among the most accessible philosophical texts most of us have ever read, yet the more one pursues the art or intelligibility of this writing, the more mysterious and paradoxical the Platonic texts become. What does it mean to study Plato, not philosophically as a maker of arguments, not poetically as a maker of dialogues, but literally as a maker of texts? This is a question that Jacques Derrida has made his own, and in this book Farness creates a dialogue with Derrida on Plato's texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMissing Socrates\u003c\/i\u003e also provides a dialogue between Plato and Socrates on the question of speech versus writing and a study of the materiality of Plato's writing. Included among the various dialogues and themes developed here are rhetoric and courtroom practice in the \u003ci\u003eApology \u003c\/i\u003eof Socrates; religion, skepticism, and the idea of transcendence in the \u003ci\u003eEuthyphro\u003c\/i\u003e; artistic practice and tradition in the \u003ci\u003eIon\u003c\/i\u003e; education and political discipline in the \u003ci\u003eCharmides\u003c\/i\u003e; and rhetoric, writing, commemoration, and the motives of authorship in \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus\u003c\/i\u003e. In each of these discursive settings, Socrates unsuccessfully seeks a place or a mode for philosophy; Farness shows that the dialogues of Plato uncannily supply that lack.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251985174872,"sku":"9780271026312","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780271026312_11d028d5-7703-424f-b2c7-5ddd05d0263b.jpg?v=1778559349","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/missing-socrates","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}