Plato's "Symposium" - translated here, and with a commentary - is arguably one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. It recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include Aristophanes, Alcibiades and Socrates. The revellers discuss a variety of topics.

Plato's "Symposium" - translated here, and with a commentary - is arguably one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. It recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include Aristophanes, Alcibiades and Socrates. The revellers discuss a variety of topics.

This is the first full-length study of the Symposium to be published in English, and one of the first English works on Plato to take its bearings by the dramatic form of the Platonic dialogue, a thesis that was regarded as heterodox at the time but which today is widely accepted by scholars of the most diverse standpoint. Rosen was also one of the first to study in detail the p...(展开全部)

“This fine version, with David Cronenberg’s inspired introduction and the new translator’s beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far; others will follow, but don’t hesitate: this is the transforming text for you.”―Richard Howard Franz Kafka’s 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwi...(展开全部)

亚里士多德（前384—前322），古希腊最伟大的哲学家、科学家和教育家之一，堪称希腊哲学的集大成者。

作者简介： 珍·罗伯兹（Jane Roberts），生于纽约撒拉托加温泉市，是20世纪最重要的通灵人之一。珍除了是赛斯书的作者外，还著有十余本小说、非小说以及诗等作品，风行全世界。赛斯是一位现已不具形体、居于多次元实相中的灵性导师，从1963年开始，赛斯借由珍口述，并由珍的丈夫逐字记录赛斯资料，这些资料被认为是新时代运动的基石，目前保存在耶鲁大学图书馆，被西方誉为人类有史以来最全面系统的修行体系。赛斯书探讨的范围涵盖了心理学、超心理学、医学、物理学等，都是最具原创性的观念。 译者简介： 王季庆，台湾成功大学毕业，留学加拿大，并旅美十余年。经历半生的心灵追寻，遍览各类心理、宗教、哲学、神秘学等书籍。于1976年首度接触启悟性的“赛斯资料”后，心弦震动，遂开始翻译赛斯书系列及新时代经典作品共十余种，在台湾成立“新时代中心”，致力将新时代的讯息介绍给更多人...(展开全部)

作者简介： 珍·罗伯兹（Jane Roberts），生于纽约撒拉托加温泉市，是20世纪最重要的通灵人之一。珍除了是赛斯书的作者外，还著有十余本小说、非小说以及诗等作品，风行全世界。赛斯是一位现已不具形体、居于多次元实相中的灵性导师，从1963年开始，赛斯借由珍口述，并由珍的丈夫逐字记录赛斯资料，这些资料被认为是新时代运动的基石，目前保存在耶鲁大学图书馆，被西方誉为人类有史以来最全面系统的修行体系。赛斯书探讨的范围涵盖了心理学、超心理学、医学、物理学等，都是最具原创性的观念。 译者简介： 王季庆，台湾成功大学毕业，留学加拿大，并旅美十余年。经历半生的心灵追寻，遍览各类心理、宗教、哲学、神秘学等书籍。于1976年首度接触启悟性的“赛斯资料”后，心弦震动，遂开始翻译赛斯书系列及新时代经典作品共十余种，在台湾成立“新时代中心”，致力将新时代的讯息介绍给更多人...(展开全部)

In his Symposium, Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Christian writers read the dialogue's 'ascent passage' as a vision of the soul's journey to heaven. Ficino's commentary on the Symposium inspired poets and artists throughout Renaissance Europe and introduced 'a Platonic love' into com...(展开全部)

In his Symposium, Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Christian writers read the dialogue's 'ascent passage' as a vision of the soul's journey to heaven. Ficino's commentary on the Symposium inspired poets and artists throughout Renaissance Europe and introduced 'a Platonic love' into com...(展开全部)