The quarrel between philosophy and poetry: studies in ancient thought (1st edition.)

Now available in paperback, The Quarrel Between Philosophyand Poetryfocuses 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.