Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern

Download or read book Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern written by Kevin Corrigan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.