The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics

✍ Scribed by Vittorio Hösle

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 521
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1. The Place of Philosophical Dialogue among the Literary Forms of Philosophy
2. Conversation and Dialogue
3. On the Relationship between Form and Content in the Philosophical Dialogue
Part I: The Production of Philosophical Dialogue
4. The Stages of the Philosophical Dialogue’s Historical Development
5. Social Presuppositions and Obstacles
6. Individual Presuppositions and Obstacles
7. The Problem of Authorial Intention
Part II: The Universe of the Philosophical Dialogue
8. Individual Dialogues and Groups of Dialogues
9. Introductory Taxonomy
10. The Modal and Ontological Status of the Literary Universe—Personification and the Problem of Realism—Dream and Dialogue
11. The Space of Conversation
12. The Time of Conversation
13. The Number of Persons in the Conversation
14. The Initial Conditions of Conversation
15. The Goal of Conversation
16. The Ethics of Conversation
17. The Logic of Conversation
18. The Aesthetics of the Dialogue
Part III: The Reception of the Philosophical Dialogue
19. Conversation between Different Dialogic Universes
20. Conversation between Author and Reader
Bibliography
Index