Encounters and Reflections Encounters and Reflections

Encounters and Reflections

Conversations with Seth Benardete

    • $48.99
    • $48.99

Publisher Description

By turns wickedly funny and profoundly illuminating, Encounters and Reflections presents a captivating and unconventional portrait of the life and works of Seth Benardete. One of the leading scholars of ancient thought, Benardete here reflects on both the people he knew and the topics that fascinated him throughout his career in a series of candid, freewheeling conversations with Robert Berman, Ronna Burger, and Michael Davis.

The first part of the book discloses vignettes about fellow students, colleagues, and acquaintances of Benardete’s who later became major figures in the academic and intellectual life of twentieth-century America. We glimpse the student days of Allan Bloom, Stanley Rosen, George Steiner, and we discover the life of the mind as lived by well-known scholars such as David Grene, Jacob Klein, and Benardete’s mentor Leo Strauss. We also encounter a number of other learned, devoted, and sometimes eccentric luminaries, including T.S. Eliot, James Baldwin, Werner Jaeger, John Davidson Beazley, and Willard Quine. In the book’s second part, Benardete reflects on his own intellectual growth and on his ever-evolving understanding of the texts and ideas he spent a lifetime studying. Revisiting some of his recurrent themes—among them eros and the beautiful, the city and the law, and the gods and the human soul—Benardete shares his views on thinkers such as Plato, Homer, and Heidegger, as well as the relations between philosophy and science and between Christianity and ancient Roman thought.

Engaging and informative, Encounters and Reflections brings Benardete’s thought to life to enlighten and inspire a new generation of thinkers.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
March 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Chicago Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
1.8
MB
The Secret Parts of Fortune The Secret Parts of Fortune
2000
A Mingled Yarn A Mingled Yarn
2017
Exemplary Lives of Impossible Men Exemplary Lives of Impossible Men
2021
Riding the Yellow Trolley Car Riding the Yellow Trolley Car
2017
The Life of Saul Bellow The Life of Saul Bellow
2018
Foucault in California Foucault in California
2019
Plato's Symposium Plato's Symposium
2013
The Bow and the Lyre The Bow and the Lyre
1996
Aristotle On Poetics Aristotle On Poetics
2020
The Being of the Beautiful The Being of the Beautiful
2008