Schleiermacher’s Plato / / Julia A. Lamm.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Lamm, Julia A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXI, 255 p.)

Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Platons Werke (1804–28) changed how we understand Plato. His translation of Plato’s dialogues remained the authoritative one in the German-speaking world for two hundred years, but it was his interpretation of Plato and the Platonic corpus, set forth in his Introductions to the dialogues, that proved so revolutionary for classicists and philosophers worldwide. Schleiermacher created a Platonic question for the modern world. Yet, in Schleiermacher studies, surprisingly little is known about Schleiermacher’s deep engagement with Plato. Schleiermacher’s Plato is the first book-length study of the topic. It addresses two basic questions: How did Schleiermacher understand Plato? In what ways was Schleiermacher’s own thought influenced by Plato? Lamm argues that Schleiermacher’s thought was profoundly influenced by Plato, or rather by his rather distinctive understanding of Plato. This is true not only of Schleiermacher’s philosophy (Hermeneutics, Dialectics) but also of his thinking about religion and Christian faith during the first decade of the nineteenth century (Christmas Dialogue, Speeches on Religion). Schleiermacher’s Plato should be of interest to classicists, philosophers, theologians, and scholars of religion.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Schleiermacher’s Plato -- 2 Schleiermacher’s Platons Werke and Its Legacy -- 3 Practicing on Plato: Interpretation, Socratic Clues, and the Emergence of Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics -- 4 Reading Plato’s Dialectics: Schleiermacher’s Insistence on Dialectics as Dialogical -- 5 Schleiermacher’s Christmas Dialogue as Platonic Dialogue -- 6 The Presence of Plato in the Speeches (1806), Part 1: Revising, Reconceiving, and Recasting -- 7 The Presence of Plato in the Speeches (1806), Part 2: Being, Non-Being, and Intuition -- 8 Conclusion: Schleiermacher’s Plato -- Bibliography -- Index