The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry

Now available in paperback, The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry focuses on the theoretical and practical suppositions of the long-standing conflict between philosophy and poetry. Stanley Rosen--one of the leading Plato scholars of our day--examines philosophical activity, questioning whether technical philosophy is a species of poetry, a political program, an interpretation of human existence according to the ideas of 19th and 20th-century thinkers, or a contemplation of beings and Being.

Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1 The Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry; Chapter 2 Philosophy and Revolution; Chapter 3 Plato's Myth of the Reversed Cosmos; Chapter 4 The Nonlover in Plato's Phaedrus; This paper was delivered at the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy in Washington, D.C., in December, 1968; Chapter 5 Socrates as Concealed Lover; Chapter 6 The Role of Eros in Plato's Republic; Chapter 7 Thought and Touch: A Note on Aristotle's De Anima; A version of this paper was delivered at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association in December, 1961; Chapter 8 Heidegger's Interpretation of Plato; This paper was delivered in a lecture to the graduate philosophy club at Yale University on January 13, 1966 and was also read to the philosophy department at C. W. Post College on May 11, 1966; Chapter 9 Much Ado about Nothing: Aristotle contra Eleaticism; Chapter 10 Remarks on Nietzsche's "Platonism";