Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
EAN num: 9782080709875
ISBN number: 2080709879
Label: Flammarion
Manufacturer: Flammarion
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: January 14, 1999
Publishing house: Flammarion
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This sensitive and intelligent reading of Plato's famous dialogue on love is entirely in French.
It is an excellent French lesson for intermediate to advanced French learners who can read along with any standard French (or even English) translation to better follow the French.
The Banquet is Plato's exposition, in dialog form, of his theory of love which has influenced Western Civilization more profoundly than almost any other work. (Nietzsche said even of Christianity that it "is warmed over Platonism for the masses.")
Such great and disparate writers as Saint Augustine, Hafiz and Cervantes were deeply influenced by Plato. The philosophy depicted in The Banquet permeates Western Civilization so completely that you will think you are reading a modern book about love. You are: the great classic works are as modern as their newest translations!
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