Wine and Ecstasy in Plato by Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides - 9798855804850

Wine and Ecstasy in PlatoA Metaphor of Sorts and Its Early Reception\nAuthor(s): Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855804850, 979-8855804850\nSynopsis\nExamines inebriation as a culturally informed metaphor employed by Plato to defend the mind-altering effects of philosophy and its reception to the second-century CE.\n\nWine and Ecstasy in Plato examines Plato's use of inebriation as a metaphor for the experience of transcendence and traces its reception to the second century CE. Drawing on the premises of cognitive phenomenology, Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides explores Socratic inebriation as an imperfect yet surprisingly effective sense-mediated reference to the mental processes that produce consciousness. Given the radical dichotomy in Greek culture between getting drunk with virtue and vice, Plato defends the Socratic way of drinking against misinterpretatio.