ISBN : 9780691225074
Author : Joshua Billings
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Year : 2024
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : In this incisive book, Billings recasts classical Greek intellectual history as a conversation across discourses and demonstrates the significance of dramatic reflections on widely shared theoretical questions. He argues that neither "literature" nor "philosophy" was a defined category in the fifth century BCE, and develops a method of reading dramatic form as a structured investigation of issues at the heart of the emerging discipline of philosophy.