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Rowman & Littlefield intends to re-issue The Bow and the
Lyre in paperback. To do so, they need a copy of the hardbound
edition. Please let us know at contactus at~ benardetearchive.org
if you will be able to donate a copy. [May 19, 2008]
The Archive is trying to identify the author of a short typescript
found in Benardetes files a students summary,
or Referat, of the plot of Aristophanes Birds.
Please let us know if it could be yours.
A discussion group has been established at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/benardete_group/.
Benardetes translations of the Theaetetus, Sophist,
and Statesman, originally published in three parts as The
Being of the Beautiful, has been reprinted (Fall 2006) by the
University of Chicago Press in a single volume
of the same name.
Benardetes doctoral dissertation, Achilles and Hector: The Homeric Hero, is now available from St. Augustines Press. Read the description from St. Augustines catalog.
The complete bibliography of Benardetes work (.pdf)
Papers presented at the recent Howard University symposium on The Thought of Seth Benardete (April 15-16, 2005) will be posted as they become available. See the program for links to papers already on-line.
Calum Carmichaels Ideas and the Man: Remembering David Daube has been published by Klostermann Verlag. Daube was a thinker and scholar whom Benardete greatly admired.
A symposium on The Thought of Seth Benardete was held April 15-16, 2005 at Howard University. See the program.
Read Vincent Renzis review of Encounters and Reflections, published Nov. 26, 2003 in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
The Archive has received a $10,000 grant from a foundation that recognizes the importance of Benardetes work. The gift, which had been offered in early 2003 as a 2-for-1 challenge grant, matched donations from Benardetes students, friends and colleagues. Many thanks to all who contributed.
The Archive has compiled a list of Benardetes courses
at N.Y.U. If you can supply any information missing from this list,
particularly the titles of works covered in a specific course, please
contact the webmaster.
This would especially assist the current effort to index Benardetes
papers at the New Schools Fogelman Library. Many thanks to
all who have written in so far. A complete list of Benardetes
courses at the Latin/Greek Institute has also been added to the
site.
Seth Benardetes Second Sailing: On the Spirit of Ideas,
an essay by Michael Davis, appears in The Political Science Reviewer,
Vol. 32 (2003), 8-35. The Political Science Reviewer is a
publication of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
Transcription of Benardetes course on Aristotles De
Anima, held at the New School in the spring of 1993, is currently
[November 2003] underway at the Archive. Audiotapes of the lectures
were supplied by Richard Hartzman.
Benardetes last book, Encounters and Reflections: Conversations
with Seth Benardete, with Robert Berman, Ronna Burger, and Michael
Davis, edited by Ronna Burger (University of Chicago Press, 2002),
was issued in February, 2003.
Read some excerpts from Encounters and Reflections at the University
of Chicago Press website.
Read Mark Blitzs review of Encounters and Reflections, reprinted from the April 7, 2003 issue
of The Weekly Standard.
Read a review of Encounters and Reflections by the Seminary Co-op
Bookstore.
Some recent scholarly publications
have been dedicated to the memory of Seth Benardete.
The Spring 2003 issue of Epoché is entitled Readings
in Ancient Greek Philosophy: In Memory of Seth Benardete.
It includes an essay by Seth Benardete on the Philoctetes.
See the table of contents.
Single copies of the journal can be purchased for $20. Orders
may be placed via e-mail
or by sending a check and request to Walter Brogan, Philosophy Department,
Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085.
A memorial
essay by Richard Velkley appears in the Winter, 2002 issue of
The Claremont Review of Books.
A symposium on The Philosophy of Seth Benardete
was held on December 5 and 6, 2002 at The New School University,
under the auspices of the Philosophy Department.
Seth Benardetes translation, with Michael Davis, of Aristotles
Poetics was published in May, 2002, by St.
Augustines Press of South Bend, Indiana. The book is
entitled Aristotle On Poetics (ISBN
#1587310252).
A memorial service
for Seth Benardete was held on February 1, 2002 at New York University.
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