{"product_id":"socrates-among-the-corybantes-carl-a-levenson-9780882149608","title":"Socrates Among the Corybantes: Being, Reality, and the Gods","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Plato's dialogues, we find many references to Corybantic rites-rites of initiation performed in honor of the goddess Rhea. But in the dialogue titled \u003ci\u003eEuthydemus, \u003c\/i\u003e there is more than a mere reference to the rites to be found. Within the context of Socratic dialectic, the ancient rites of the Corybantes are acted out-although veiled and distorted. This is what Carl Levenson argues in his book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the Corybantic rites are of the Dionysian\/Eleusinian type, Plato gives us a glimpse of the reality of Dionysian ecstasy. This interesting knowledge of these rites has usually been lost in the academic assertion that the \u003ci\u003eEuthydemus\u003c\/i\u003e is just a satire on philosophic arguing, and hence it has been consigned to a marginal place in Plato's canon. But here Plato is rejecting his abstract theories in favor of intimacy with the reality of the world, of matter and being rather than form. Levenson states that complete immersion in the material substrate of the world is what Plato discovers at the heart of Dionysian ecstasy, and the aim of ecstasy. Plato says it is to purify the soul of ancient guilt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a new Afterword by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carl A. Levenson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0882149601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780882149608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Spring Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Carl A. Levenson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202686632191,"sku":"9780882149608","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_60e59d69-0973-41b7-bbbb-c5e1147b8e0e.jpg?v=1756833107","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/socrates-among-the-corybantes-carl-a-levenson-9780882149608","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}