Platonisms, ancient, modern, and postmodern / edited by Kevin Corrigan, John D. Turner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corrigan, Kevin.

Turner, John D. (John Douglas)

Series:

Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition 1871-188X ; v. 4.

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 1871-188X ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Platonists.

Neoplatonism.

Plato--Influence.

Physical Description:

xi, 278 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

The present volume argues that Plato and Platonism should be understood not as a series of determinate doctrines or philosophical facts to be pinned down once and for all, but rather as an inexhaustible mine of possible trajectories. The book examines in this light different strands of Platonic thinking from the dialogues themselves through later Antiquity and the Medieval World into Modernity and Post-Modernity with new essays ranging from Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and Natorp to Yeats, Levinas and Derrida. It also suggests the possibility of reading the dialogues and the whole tradition resonating in and through them in new, unexpected ways.

Contents:

Introduction: Plato and Platonisms / Kevin Corrigan, John D. Turner 1

The Individual Contributions to the Volume 7

Section I Platonisms of Classical Antiquity

Platonic Dialectic: the Path and the Goal / T.A. Szlezak 17

What is a God According to Plato? / Luc Brisson 41

Section II Platonisms of Late Antiquity

Victorinus, Parmenides Commentaries and the Platonizing Sethian Treatises / John D. Turner 55

Proclus and the Ancients / Steven Strange 97

Virtue, Marriage, and Parenthood in Simplicius' Commentary on Epictetus' 'Encheiridion' / G. Reydams-Schils 109

Section III Platonisms of the Renaissance and the Modern World

How to Apply the Modern Concepts of Mathesis Universalis and Scientia Universalis to Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Platonisms, Gilbert of Poitiers, and Descartes / Gerald Bechtle 129

Real Atheism and Cambridge Platonism: Men of Latitude, Polemics, and the Great Dead Philosophers / Douglas Hedley 155

The Language of Metaphysics Ancient and Modern / Robert Berchman 175

The Platonic Forms as Gesetze: Could Paul Natorp Have Been Right? / John Dillon 191

Crying in Plato's Teeth-W.B. Yeats and Platonic Inspiration / Anthony Cuda 205

Section IV Platonisms of the Postmodern World

The Face of the Other: a Comparison between the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Plato, and Plotinus / Kevin Corrigan 219

Derrida Reads (Neo-) Platonism / Stephen Gersh 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-271) and index.

ISBN:

9789004158412

9004158413

OCLC:

143614660