THE THANKSGIVING SYMPOSIUM by Bruce Fleming ( 9780761839781 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE THANKSGIVING SYMPOSIUM
A MODERN PLATONIC DIALOGUE ON LOVE

By:

Bruce Fleming

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

076183978X

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9780761839781

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA

Pub. date:

24 December, 2007

Pages:

122

Synopsis:

What if Plato's Symposium took place in present-day America rather than in ancient Athens? The Thanksgiving Symposium imagines this, and makes it happen. Like Plato's dialogue, The Thanksgiving Symposium focuses on the age-old question: what is the nature of love? In The Thanksgiving Symposium, three men and three women of varying ages and degrees of closeness meet for Thanksgiving dinner. Their particular situations give rise to a discussion of love in the general and the specific, leavened with the normal give and take of social interaction. During the evening, much is discussed and some things are decided. Plato's dialogue verges on being a play about philosophy rather than a philosophy, people discussing things rather than a philosopher telling us what to conclude. The Thanksgiving Symposium develops this aspect of Plato while offering a new philosophy that responds to the old. Is the result a play? A dialogue? A philosophy? Like Plato's Symposium, it is all of these at once.

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