Enthusiasm and divine madness : on the Platonic dialogue Phaedrus

Author(s)

• Pieper, Josef
• Winston, Richard
• Winston, Clara

Bibliographic Information

Enthusiasm and divine madness : on the Platonic dialogue Phaedrus

Josef Pieper ; translation by Richard and Clara Winston

St. Augustine's Press, 2000

Other Title

Begeisterung und Göttlicher Wahnsinn

Uniform Title

Begeisterung und Göttlicher Wahnsinn

Note

Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Brings the actual situation in the dialogue - Athens and its intellectuals engaged in spirited debate - alive. Equally alive is the discussions of ideas, which are brought to bear on contemporary experience and made to prove the perennial validity of Socratic wisdom, and its power to excite the mind. The main thesis - that in poetry and in love man is "beside himself," that is, divinely inspired - is discussed with reference to modern poets, novelists, and modern psychology.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA54866512
• ISBN:
  • 189031823X
• LCCN: 99048136
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: South Bend, Ind.
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 109 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B380
  • DC21 : 184
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Plato. Phaedrus
  • LCSH : Rhetoric, Ancient
  • LCSH : Love
  • LCSH : Soul
  • LCSH : Socrates
  • LCSH : Lysias