Reading: Carson, Eros, the Bittersweet
Background: Plato, Symposium; Phaedrus; Republic, Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
Background or supplemental reading: Augustine, Confessions
Ong, Method and the Decay of Dialogue
Recommended:
Hadot, “A First Glimpse of the Meditations” (The Inner Citadel)
Illich, “Order, Memory, and History” (In the Vineyard of the Text)
Plato, Phaedrus
Pender, “Sappho and Anacreon in Plato’s Phaedrus”
Lebeck, “The Central Myth of Plato’s Phaedrus”
Güven, “Death and Madness in the Phaedo and Phaedrus”
Giasoumis, “Self-Knowledge, Eros and Recollection in Plato’s Phaedrus”
Finbloom, “Plato’s Phaedrus: A Memory Pharmacy”
Plato, Myth of Er in Republic, Book X
Krause, “Plato’s Myth of Er”
Thayer, “The Myth of Er”
Bussanich, “Rebirth Eschatology in Plato and Plotinus”
Gadamer, The Relevance of the Beautiful
Babich, “Gadamer, Beauty, and Musical Improvisation”
