Lexington Books
Pages: 176
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66691-966-0 • Hardback • April 2023 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-66691-967-7 • eBook • April 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Catherine Craig is Postdoctoral Scholar at Arizona State University.
Chapter One: Self-Forgetting Featherless Bipeds
Chapter Two: Remembering the Age of Cronus
Chapter Three: Sleeping and Wakefulness in the Age of Zeus
Chapter Four: Weaving the Cloak of Memory
Chapter Five: Memory and Law
“A fresh reading of the Statesman identifying memory as the unifying thread of the dialogue. Most interesting is the analysis of the Statesman through the lens of the respective roles of historical and philosophic memory and of the relationship between the two in the life of a political community. Craig’s account is insightful, rich, nuanced, and carefully carried out.”
— Cristina Ionescu, The Catholic University of America
Catherine Craig’s book is a reading of Plato’s Statesman that will be of interest both to Plato scholars and uninitiated political theorists curious about this important but exceedingly challenging ancient Greek text.
— The Review of Politics
In Memory and Political Art in Plato’s Statesman, Catherine Craig illuminates the importance of these often neglected kinds of memory for both Plato’s thought and our contemporary political age by examining memory’s role within his perplexing dialogue, The Statesman.
— Phillip Pinell, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Theory, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Political Science