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Plato’s dialogues stand at a transition from orality to literacy. They are living contradictions—partly oral and partly literary. This relationship between orality and writing is one of the most vexed issues in the history of Platonic interpretation and has particular relevance for the progressive erosion of literacy in favour of digitalisation today. This book argues that the relationship between the oral and the written in Plato’s dialogues is not a straightforward opposition, but is instead grounded in ontological analysis and exemplified by the ontology of the image, which appears throughout the Platonic canon.
"This book makes a contribution to the topic, with some remarkable scholarly insights, and it may be useful for an introductory reading (in translation) of some key texts in the Platonic corpus, especially for those who are interested in the reception of the problem of mimesis in authors of the philosophical production of the 20th century."
-Tomás N. Castro, University of Lisbon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2024
"This book makes a contribution to the topic, with some remarkable scholarly insights, and it may be useful for an introductory reading (in translation) of some key texts in the Platonic corpus, especially for those who are interested in the reception of the problem of mimesis in authors of the philosophical production of the 20th century."
-Tomás N. Castro, University of Lisbon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2024
Price: $158.00
Pages: 174
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
08 December 2022
ISBN: 9789004533110
Format: Hardcover
"Mariangela Esposito situates the Platonic corpus in the age of an “anthropological paradigm shift” from a culture of orality to a culture of writing (pp. ix, 51, 59, 65) and proposes a “contemporary philosophical inquiry” (p. ix) into Plato’s criticisms of both cultures. [...] Esposito discusses the realm of mimesis in Plato as a “mechanism” (p. xiii) that reveals the constant relationships of opposition, continuity, and co-dependency in the critiques of writing and orality, as well as a crucial problem in the ontology of the image [...] This book makes a contribution to the topic, with some remarkable scholarly insights, and it may be useful for an introductory reading (in translation) of some key texts in the Platonic corpus, especially for those who are interested in the reception of the problem of mimesis in authors of the philosophical production of the 20th century." - Tomás N. Castro, University of Lisbon, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 29 May 2024 [Full review]
Mariangela Esposito received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Limerick in 2019. She currently works as an Education Specialist at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI). Her research interests include ancient aesthetics, philosophy of emotions, and the contemporary reception of ancient philosophy.