{"product_id":"the-language-of-love-stanley-rosen-9781587314544","title":"The Language of Love: An Interpretation of Plato's Phaedrus","description":"Stanley Rosen completed \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Love \u003c\/i\u003ein the early 1970s, but the manuscript was put aside and only rediscovered in 2013, the year before his death. \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is an interpretation of the \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus \u003c\/i\u003ethat was meant to follow and complete Rosen's \u003ci\u003eSymposium \u003c\/i\u003ecommentary. Only two articles have been previously published. Rosen's frequent references to the central passages and second half of the \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus \u003c\/i\u003ewere more important in pointing up the importance of his absent full interpretation of the dialogue. \u003cbr\u003e Here Rosen's argue for the possibility of philosophy or the retrieval of human self-knowledge on the basis of a renewed argument for the partial intelligibility of ordinary experience or, in other words, for the Platonic Ideas. His book on the \u003ci\u003eSymposium \u003c\/i\u003ewas an important contribution to the subsequent sea change in Plato scholarship that returned attention to the dialogue form and to the poetic side of philosophy even in its quarrel with philosophy. That change allowed us search for understanding in the light of the whole, a whole which is otherwise, as Rosen has shown elsewhere, fragmented by the scientism of analytical philosophy or the historicism of \"Continental\" philosophy. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Love \u003c\/i\u003erepresents a missing key to Stanley Rosen's work and, much more significantly, to the rediscovery of philosophy in our time. The title of the book is not merely a play on words. It points to the incommensurability between the constructed or historical nature of language or culture and the pre-discursive apprehension of things that is necessary if speech is to make sense and be understood, as opposed to being mere nonsense. \u003cbr\u003e Among many valuable insights along the way, Rosen unites the dialogue in two parts, treating both eros and rhetoric, showing the linkage between eros and writing, as between myth and analysis. He connects the comic attempt to subject eros to diaeresis in the \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus \u003c\/i\u003ewith the attempt to understand non-being as an eidos in the \u003ci\u003eSophist\u003c\/i\u003e. In both cases, the inadequacy of a technical understanding of philosophy returns us to the pre-technical world of ordinary experience. \u003cbr\u003e Rosen's interpretation is an expression of the Socratic claim that we can't speak beautifully without knowing the truth and that whatever truth we speak or write is a reflection of the silent invisibility of beauty as the unity of form. However, \"Like every good teacher, it does not simply state that link for us to memorize. Instead, we must recollect it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanley Rosen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1587314541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587314544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Augustine's Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Stanley Rosen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44046786920703,"sku":"9781587314544","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a231fe4c-2720-4f11-96a1-f1d5312d00c7.jpg?v=1684986487","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-language-of-love-stanley-rosen-9781587314544","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}