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Title: Virtues of Authenticity by Alexander Nehamas ISBN: 0-691-00178-2 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 16 November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Very good. Nehamas @ his best.
Comment: Virtues of Authenticity comprises of more than a dozen essays on varying themes on Plato and Socrates; primarily Plato; and includes Nehamas' essays on the Symposium, the Phaedrus and the Republic, which also appear in the volumes he had translated earlier. Nehamas tries to answer basic questions, like what and to whom Socrates taught, or why Plato hated poetry. His analytical rigor really shows and the book, despite the depth of his analysis, reads really well, though you always feel that you may have lost an entire level of meaning; and you have, indeed.

Very interesting in conjunction with Vlastos' work as well as with Nehamas' own lectures in his "Art of Living" on Socratic and Platonic irony.

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