Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 4)

Book info: Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern (Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition, 4) (Hardcover, 292 pages) – Brill, 2007. Language: English.

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. And also suggests the possibility of reading the dialogues and the whole tradition resonating in and through them in new, unexpected ways. Contributors include: T.A. Szlezák, Luc Brisson, John D.Turner, Steven Strange, G. Reydams-Schils, Gerald Bechtle, Douglas Hedley, Robert Berchman, John Dillon, Anthony Cuda, Kevin Corrigan, and Stephen Gersh. Editorial Reviews About the Author Kevin Corrigan is Professor of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. His most recent books are Reading Plotinus: a practical guide to Neoplatonism(2004) and Plato's Dialectic at Play: Structure, Argument and Myth in the Symposium(2004) (with Elena Glazov-Corrigan).
John D. Turner is Cotner Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His most recent books are critical editions of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Zostrien (NH VIII, 1) (2000), Marsanès (NH X,1) (2001), L’Allogène (2004); a collection of edited essays, Gnosticism and Later Platonism: Themes, Figures, and Texts (2001), and a monograph, Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition (2001).