Erosophia. Or: the Love/Lack of Wisdom

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2017

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Belmonte, Nina

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We are told by the Ancients that a philosopher is a “friend” (philos) of wisdom. But Plato was convinced that the pursuit of wisdom began in eros. This paper brings Anne Carson’s extraordinary 1986 Eros the Bittersweet into “resonance” with Jan Zwicky’s 2015 collection of essays, Alcibiades Love in order to explore the role of eros in the creation of meaning, the movement of thought and in the ongoing life of the love of wisdom.

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Belmonte, N. (2017). Erosophia. Or: The love/lack of wisdom. PhaenEx, 12(1), 1- 17. https://doi.org/10.22329/p.v12i1.4763

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https://doi.org/10.22329/p.v12i1.4763
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