{"product_id":"9781930972711","title":"Plato's Parmenides: Text, Translation \u0026 Introductory Essay","description":"Plato's Parmenides presents the modern reader with a puzzle. Noted for being the most difficult of Platonic dialogues, it is also one of the most influential. This translation is the result of a collaboration between Arnold Hermann and Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. As part of their research extensive comparisons of the available translations of Plato's Parmenides were carried out. Some of these works were found to be quite accurate, but occasionally they were vague or difficult to understand. The greatest challenge facing a translator of philosophical works is how to balance intelligibility with faithfulness, while maintaining sufficient consistency to allow the discernment of technical terms. Additional attention was paid to the cultural milieu at the time of the writing, and the possible discussions that preceded it, reflected conceivably in the author's language. With this in mind, great pains have been taken to secure both accuracy and accessibility, mindful that the Parmenides represents a significant contribution to a much greater philosophical debate, that in parts is retraceable to the earliest thinkers, not excluding the Archaic poets.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Parmenides Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057950572784,"sku":"9781930972711","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781930972711_p0.jpg?v=1763637844","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781930972711","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}