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Image and Paradigm in Plato's 'Sohpist'

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"Image And Paradigm In Plato's Sophist" by David Ambuel (Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Kurt F. Leidecker Chair of Asian Studies at Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia) provides contemporary students and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the writings of Plato with a new translation of Plato's dialogue, the 'Sophist', along with a comprehensive and articulate commentary that quite reverse dominant trends in mainstream philosophical theories. Professor Ambuel demonstrates and documents that this late dialogue presented with his own unconventional, yet thoughtful and thought-provoking interpretation is a defense of Plato's metaphysics and not a radical departure from them. Lucid, insightful, reasoned, and iconoclastic, "Image And Paradigm In Plato's Sophist" is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to academic library Philosophy reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

I want to first say that I have not read this book. But, I want to make a comment directed to whoever is responsible for the typo in the title of this work. Plato's dialogue is, of course, the "Sophist." The title of this work should read "Image and Paradigm in Plato's 'Sophist'" not "Sohpist." I would have probably already purchased this book for my kindle by now if I wasn't led to believe that there would be errors and mistakes throughout the book.