Miller, Mitchell, The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman, Las Vegas, NV: Parmenidies Publishing, 2004.

Excerpt:

In contemporary writings on Plato it is almost commonplace to remark that he is at once a profound philosopher and dramatist and teacher. Even by its form, however, this remark may confess more about contemporary scholarship and higher education than it reveals about Plato. In disciplinary terms, philosophy, literature, and pedagogy have been separated as distinct fields. The usual consequence for our study of Plato is that the correlative aspects of his dialogues—roughly, their content, form, and communicative function—are approached in isolation; and this, in turn, results in a significant diminution, if not concealment, of each.

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