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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 Benardete’s files — a student’s 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/. Benardete’s 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. Benardete’s doctoral dissertation, Achilles and Hector: The Homeric Hero, is now available from St. Augustine’s Press. Read the description from St. Augustine’s catalog. The complete bibliography of Benardete’s 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 Carmichael’s 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 Renzi’s 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 Benardete’s work. The gift, which had been offered in early 2003 as a 2-for-1 challenge grant, matched donations from Benardete’s students, friends and colleagues. Many thanks to all who contributed. The Archive has compiled a list of Benardete’s 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 Benardete’s papers at the New School’s Fogelman Library. Many thanks to all who have written in so far. A complete list of Benardete’s courses at the Latin/Greek Institute has also been added to the site. “Seth Benardete’s 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 Benardete’s course on Aristotle’s 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. Benardete’s 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 Blitz’s 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 Benardete’s translation, with Michael Davis, of Aristotle’s Poetics was published in May, 2002, by St. Augustine’s 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. Back to Top |