Platone e il passato

The volume is committed to the reconstruction of Plato's relationship with the past in literary, socio-economic, and political contexts. The past is analysed as a real “resource” from which content can be drawn for reinterpretation and resemantisation. The analysis shows how Plato develops a methodological "strategy" for transferring elements of the traditional cultural system – the archaic, mythical-religious, and political tradition – into a new conceptual context which aims at the realisation of a utopian philosophical-political project.