pomonomo2003's "Best of Several Schools of Plato Interpretation"

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01-10: Plato as ‘Dogmatist’

11-20: Plato as ‘Dramatist’

21-25: Neoplatonic Interpretation

26-30: Metaphysical Esoteric Interpretation (Similar to Neoplatonic)

31-32: The Medieval Islamic Political Esoteric Interpretation

33-40: Straussian Political Esoteric Interpretation

41-42: The impact of the change from an oral to written culture on Plato.

43-50: Continental and Postmodern Interpretations

51-52: Marxist Political Interpretations

53-56: Christian Interpretations (Often similar to the Neoplatonists.)

57-60: More ‘Political’ Interpretations

61-62: Plato: Creator! Of Myth and/or Philosophy…

Always keep in mind that often there are no hard and fast lines between different schools of interpretation. For instance, almost everyone pays attention to the dramatic elements of Plato’s text, even if only to tell us to ignore these elements! Also, there is a great deal of similarity between some Christians and some Neoplatonists. And both Marxists and Straussians try, in their very different ways, to pay attention to the political resonances in the Platonic texts. Lastly, I want to mention that postmoderns are usually very pleased to take Plato as a dogmatist in order to denounce him all the more.

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  2. 2.
    Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Republic
    by Robert Mayhew
  5. 5.
    ?
    An Examination of Plato's Doctrines
    by I. M. Crombie
  7. 7.
    Platonic Studies
    by Gregory Vlastos
  8. 8.
    The Theaetetus of Plato
    by Myles Burnyeat
  10. 10.
    An Introduction to Plato's Republic
    by Julia Annas
  11. 11.
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    Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato (Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle)
    by Friedrich Schleiermacher
  13. 13.
    ?
    Plato: the Dialogues, Second and Third Periods
    by Paul Friedländer
  14. 14.
    ?
    Plato's Dialogues One by One: A Structural Interpretation
    by Victorino Tejera
  15. 15.
    The Return of the King
    by Victorino Tejera
  19. 19.
    Who Speaks for Plato?: Studies in Platonic Anonymity
    by Gerald A. Press
  20. 20.
    A Commentary on Plato's Meno
    by Jacob Klein
  21. 21.
    The Enneads: Abridged Edition (Penguin Classics)
    by Plotinus
  22. 22.
    Proclus' Commentary on Plato's "Parmenides"
    by Proclus
  24. 24.
    ?
    From Platonism to Neoplatonism.
    by Philip Merlan
  26. 26.
    ?
    Toward a New Interpretation of Plato
    by Giovanni Reale
  29. 29.
    Reading Plato
    by Thomas Szlezák
  32. 32.
    ?
  33. 33.
    The City and Man
    by Leo Strauss
  34. 34.
    The Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws
    by Leo Strauss
  35. 35.
    Leo Strauss On Plato's Symposium
    by Leo Strauss
  36. 36.
    Plato's Republic: A Study
    by Stanley Rosen
  37. 37.
    Plato's Sophist: The Drama of Original and Image
    by Stanley Rosen
  38. 38.
    Platos Statesman: Web Of Politics
    by Stanley Rosen
  39. 39.
    Socrates' Second Sailing: On Plato's Republic
    by Seth Benardete
  41. 41.
    Preface to Plato (History of the Greek Mind,)
    by Eric Havelock
  43. 43.
    Plato's Sophist (Studies in Continental Thought)
    by Martin Heidegger
  45. 45.
    Dialogue and Dialectic: Eight Hermeneutical Studies on Plato
    by Hans-Georg Gadamer
  46. 46.
    Difference and Repetition (Continuum Impacts)
    by Gilles Deleuze
  47. 47.
    Dissemination (Continuum Impacts S.)
    by Jacques Derrida
  48. 48.
    ?
    Being and Logos: Reading the Platonic Dialogues
    by John Sallis
  49. 49.
    Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida
    by Catherine H. Zuckert
  50. 50.
    Socrates: Fictions of a Philosopher
    by Sarah Kofman

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