Ebook: Literary form, philosophical content: historical studies of philosophical genres

Preface; Introduction: Genre as a Tool of Philosophical Interpretation and Analysis; Platonic Preludes; Plato's Use of the Dialogue Form: Skepticism and Insemination; Some Cautionary Remarks on Platonic Dialogue; Beyond Dialogue; The Life of Aesop: Rhetoric and the Philosophical Life; From Parmenides to Anselm: Philosophy as Prayer; A Compilation of Arguments: The SkepticÌs Medicine Chest; Aristotle through the Looking Glass: Aquinas as a Historian of Philosophy; Aquinas's Disputational Format and the Community of Philosophy.