{"product_id":"thanksgiving-symposium","title":"Thanksgiving Symposium","description":"What if Plato's Symposium took place in present-day America rather than in ancient Athens? \u003ci\u003eThe Thanksgiving Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e imagines this, and makes it happen. Like Plato's dialogue, \u003ci\u003eThe Thanksgiving Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the age-old question: what is the nature of love? In \u003ci\u003eThe Thanksgiving Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e, three men and three women of varying ages and degrees of closeness meet for Thanksgiving dinner. Their particular situations give rise to a discussion of love in the general and the specific, leavened with the normal give and take of social interaction. During the evening, much is discussed and some things are decided. Plato's dialogue verges on being a play about philosophy rather than a philosophy, people discussing things rather than a philosopher telling us what to conclude. \u003ci\u003eThe Thanksgiving Symposium\u003c\/i\u003e develops this aspect of Plato while offering a new philosophy that responds to the old. Is the result a play? A dialogue? A philosophy? Like Plato's \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e, it is all of these at once.","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239515935064,"sku":"9780761839781","price":45.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780761839781_253d0850-dde4-4a41-8519-6d6b0512cd51.jpg?v=1769719535","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/thanksgiving-symposium","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}