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Postmodern Platos

1996-06 Philosophy
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Release : 1996-06
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Platos by : Catherine H. Zuckert

Download or read book Postmodern Platos written by Catherine H. Zuckert. This book was released on 1996-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Zuckert examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lens of their own decidedly postmodern readings of Plato. She argues that Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, and Derrida, convinced that modern rationalism had exhausted its possibilities, all turned to Plato in order to rediscover the original character of philosophy and to reconceive the Western tradition as a whole. Zuckert's artful juxtaposition of these seemingly disparate bodies of thought furnishes a synoptic view, not merely of these individual thinkers, but of the broad postmodern landscape as well. The result is a brilliantly conceived work that offers an innovative perspective on the relation between the Western philosophical tradition and the evolving postmodern enterprise.

Plato's Philosophers

2009-08-01 Political Science
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Release : 2009-08-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Plato's Philosophers by : Catherine H. Zuckert

Download or read book Plato's Philosophers written by Catherine H. Zuckert. This book was released on 2009-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato’s true ideas from the contradictory voices he used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities within and between the dialogues. In the magisterial Plato’s Philosophers, Catherine Zuckert explains for the first time how these prose dramas cohere to reveal a comprehensive Platonic understanding of philosophy. To expose this coherence, Zuckert examines the dialogues not in their supposed order of composition but according to the dramatic order in which Plato indicates they took place. This unconventional arrangement lays bare a narrative of the rise, development, and limitations of Socratic philosophy. In the drama’s earliest dialogues, for example, non-Socratic philosophers introduce the political and philosophical problems to which Socrates tries to respond. A second dramatic group shows how Socrates develops his distinctive philosophical style. And, finally, the later dialogues feature interlocutors who reveal his philosophy’s limitations. Despite these limitations, Zuckert concludes, Plato made Socrates the dialogues’ central figure because Socrates raises the fundamental human question: what is the best way to live? Plato’s dramatization of Socratic imperfections suggests, moreover, that he recognized the apparently unbridgeable gap between our understandings of human life and the nonhuman world. At a time when this gap continues to raise questions—about the division between sciences and the humanities and the potentially dehumanizing effects of scientific progress—Zuckert’s brilliant interpretation of the entire Platonic corpus offers genuinely new insights into worlds past and present.

Plato's 'Symposium'

2010-05-20 Philosophy
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Release : 2010-05-20
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Plato's 'Symposium' by : Thomas L. Cooksey

Download or read book Plato's 'Symposium' written by Thomas L. Cooksey. This book was released on 2010-05-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato and Heidegger

2015-09-10 Philosophy
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Release : 2015-09-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Plato and Heidegger by : Francisco J. Gonzalez

Download or read book Plato and Heidegger written by Francisco J. Gonzalez. This book was released on 2015-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a critique of Heidegger that respects his path of thinking, Francisco Gonzalez looks at the ways in which Heidegger engaged with Plato’s thought over the course of his career and concludes that, owing to intrinsic requirements of Heidegger’s own philosophy, he missed an opportunity to conduct a real dialogue with Plato that would have been philosophically fruitful for us all. Examining in detail early texts of Heidegger’s reading of Plato that have only recently come to light, Gonzalez, in parts 1 and 2, shows there to be certain affinities between Heidegger’s and Plato’s thought that were obscured in his 1942 essay “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth,” on which scholars have exclusively relied in interpreting what Heidegger had to say about Plato. This more nuanced reading, in turn, helps Gonzalez provide in part 3 an account of Heidegger’s later writings that highlights the ways in which Heidegger, in repudiating the kind of metaphysics he associated with Plato, took a direction away from dialectic and dialogue that left him unable to pursue those affinities that could have enriched Heidegger’s own philosophy as well as Plato’s. “A genuine dialogue with Plato,” Gonzalez argues, “would have forced [Heidegger] to go in certain directions where he did not want to go and could not go without his own thinking undergoing a radical transformation.”

Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

2002-01-10 History
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Release : 2002-01-10
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic by : Claudia Baracchi

Download or read book Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic written by Claudia Baracchi. This book was released on 2002-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reading of Plato's Republic illuminates the power of myth in the shaping of history. It demonstrates the pervasiveness of myth in Plato's dialogues as well as within philosophy generally.

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