Plato's 20th Century Readings - Continental Perspectives on Plato's Diaogues
I'm looking for (or slowly compiling) a list of secondary commentaries or readings of individual platonic dialogues (grouped by dialogue). Specifically readings from the tradition of Modern to Contemporary Continental Philosophy.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD DIALOGUES AND ESSAYS TO THE LIST:
Essay Titles, Book Name, Year of Publication, Publisher, etc if known would be great as well.
Alcibiades:
- Michel Foucault - 1982 lectures "L'Hermeneutique du Sujet"
- Jacques Lacan - Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII
Gorgias:
- Nietzsche - "The Problem of Socrates" (Twilight of the Idols)
- Alexander Nehamas - "A fate for Socrates' reason: Foucault on the care of the self"
Ion:
- Jessica Moss "What is imitative poetry and Why is it Bad" (also Republic 2,3,10)
- Michel Foucault On the Government of the Living Lectures at the Collège de France
Laches
- Foucault, Michel. "The Practice of Parrhesia." In Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia,
Phaedrus:
- Jacques Derrida -"Plato's Pharmacy"
- Emmanuel Levinas Totality and Infinity
- Plato, Derrida, and Writing Hardcover – 15 Jul 2004 by Jasper P Neel (Author)
Phaedo:
- Richard Rorty - "A World without substance or essence"
- Emmanuel Levinas Totality and Infinity
Republic:
- Martin Heidegger "Plato's Doctrine of Truth"
- Leo Strauss - "Plato", 33–89 in History of Political Philosophy,
- Leo Strauss - "The City of Man"
- Alain Badiou - "Plato's Republic: A Dialogue in 16 Chapters" (2013)
- Karl Popper - "The Spell of Plato" Open Society and Its Enemies (Not Continental)
- Cherniss "The Philosophical Economy of the Theory of Ideas"
- The Republic: The Odyssey of Philosophy 1st Edition by Jacob Howland
- Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic by Claudia Baracchi
Sophist
- Heidegger “Plato’s Sophist” (Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25)
Symposium:
- Jacques Lacan - Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII
- L. Irigaray "Sorcerer Love: A reading of Plato, Symposium, 'Diotima's Speech'"
- J. Lacan - "Of the Subject who is Supposed to Know"
Theaetetus:
- Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations (Secs 48 ff.) [/list][/list]
Timaeus
- Jacques Derrida, "On the Name" (SUP 1995) Khôra, Paris: Galilée 1993.
Other texts of note:
- Lectures on History of Philosophy: Plato and the Platonists by G. W. F. Hegel
- Plato’s Republic: A Dialogue in 16 Chapters, by Alain Badiou. Translated by Susan Spitzer, Columbia University Press, 400 pp.
- Gadamer, Hans-Georg, Dialogue and Dialectic: Eight Hermeneutical Studies on Plato, translated by P. Christopher Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980).
- Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpretations of Plato (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) Hardcover – 23 Sep 2004 by Drew A. Hyland (Author)