Sunday, June 11, 2006
(11:06 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
A Note on Plato and Unrelated Matters
From a post at The Valve:Writing socratikoi logoi - Socratic dialogues - was a minor, literary cottage industry, and Plato entered the field comparatively late. (Did you know that? Many people do not. It really ought to figure in our conception of Plato more than it does.)My mind has officially been blown. The rest of the post gives some details of what we know about the many, many Socratic dialogues that have apparently been lost.
You might also want to check out the Long Sunday Carl Schmitt Symposium, which contains contributions from me and Anthony.
On the Nancy translation, there's really no hurry. I'd be surprised if I got done with my section before the end of the week. If we have a first draft by next Monday morning, I'll be very pleased. Thanks to everyone who has already begun work. Also, even for those who are not part of our translation team, I still have like 45 Writely invitations I can give out, if you're into that kind of thing. (Unfortunately, it doesn't do footnotes. In fact, it seems to have roughly the formatting power of your average Blogger compose window, but the collaboration tools are a nice addition. Perhaps someday we'll have the ability to do genuinely collaborative blog posts -- especially now that this Writely thing joins Blogger as part of the Google Empire.)
My Nancy directed study continues to take more time than I had anticipated. Maybe by the end of next week I'll finally be free.
