Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher

This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus ), as the good city ( Republic ), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman). It offers fresh and sometimes radical interpretations of these dialogues. Those exceptional elements of experience – love, city, philosopher – do not escape embodiment but rather occupy the same world that contains lamentable versions of each. Thus Pappas is depicting the philosophical a