{"product_id":"the-philosophical-dialogue-vittorio-hsle-9780268207069","title":"The Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo overall history of the philosophical dialogue has appeared since Rudolf Hirzel's two-volume study was published in 1895. In \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophical Dialogue: A Poetics and a Hermeneutics\u003c\/i\u003e, Vittorio Hle covers the development of the genre from its beginning with Plato to the late twentieth-century work of Iris Murdoch and Paul Feyerabend. Hle presents a taxonomy and a doctrine of categories for the complex literary genre of the philosophical dialogue, focusing on the poetical laws that structure the genre, and develops hermeneutical rules for its correct interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing an introduction that employs the categories of subjectivity and intersubjectivity to classify philosophy's modes of expression, Hle's book is structured by the classical triad of the production, inner structure, and reception of the literary dialogue. To explain what is meant by \"philosophical dialogue,\" Hle first deals with the specific traits of philosophical dialogue in contrast to other literary forms of philosophy and its special status among them. Second, he distinguishes the philosophical dialogue as a literary genre from actual philosophical conversation, and as a philosophical literary genre from nonphilosophical literary dialogues. Finally, he takes up the connection between literary form and philosophical content in the philosophical dialogue. Numerous authors of dialogues are discussed, with a special focus on Plato, Cicero, Augustine, Hume, and Diderot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in Germany as \u003ci\u003eDer philosophische Dialog: Eine Poetik und Hermeneutik\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), this book not only contributes to the philosophical discussion of dialogue but to a great extent defines it. This fine translation will prove useful to both philosophers and literary critics in the English-speaking world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vittorio Hle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268207062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268207069\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d","brand":"Vittorio Hle","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44070107283711,"sku":"9780268207069","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_62017e3a-8cf3-4770-acca-771fe6e7c2fb.jpg?v=1685428396","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-philosophical-dialogue-vittorio-hsle-9780268207069","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}