The Banquet.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 13701 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 176 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2010 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251800127 |
Bilingual collection. Voices rise from the Athenian night to celebrate love. The guests at Agathon's banquet—his talents as a tragedian are being celebrated—take turns delivering their version of Eros. The heavy, spicy wine loosens tongues. The invention will reach new heights of extravagance with Aristophanes' myth. The dramatic intensity, masterfully modulated, increases in intensity. Finally, Socrates speaks, but rather than press his dialectical advantage, he chooses to relate the words once spoken to him by the priestess of Mantinea. This is unique in Plato's work, and let's face it, extremely rare in the history of Western thought: it is a woman who is tasked with initiating the philosopher into the mystery of love. What Diotima says will change the history of our sensibilities; George Steiner shows this in the preface: "Authentic Eros is a quest for immortality, our life is only valid if it aspires to the vision of absolute beauty, which is also truth.
Bilingual collection. Voices rise from the Athenian night to celebrate love. The guests at Agathon's banquet—his talents as a tragedian are being celebrated—take turns delivering their version of Eros. The heavy, spicy wine loosens tongues. The invention will reach new heights of extravagance with Aristophanes' myth. The dramatic intensity, masterfully modulated, increases in intensity. Finally, Socrates speaks, but rather than press his dialectical advantage, he chooses to relate the words once spoken to him by the priestess of Mantinea. This is unique in Plato's work, and let's face it, extremely rare in the history of Western thought: it is a woman who is tasked with initiating the philosopher into the mystery of love. What Diotima says will change the history of our sensibilities; George Steiner shows this in the preface: "Authentic Eros is a quest for immortality, our life is only valid if it aspires to the vision of absolute beauty, which is also truth.