Teaching Plato in Palestine : : Philosophy in a Divided World / / Carlos Fraenkel.

Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical toolkit in tow, Carlos Fraenkel invites readers on a tour around the world as he meets students at Palestinian and Indonesian universities, lapsed Hasidi...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©2015
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Walzer, Michael
  • Preface
  • PART I
  • 1. Teaching Plato in Palestine
  • 2. Teaching Maimonides in Makassar
  • 3. Spinoza in Shtreimels: An Underground Seminar
  • 4. Citizen Philosophers in Brazil
  • 5. Word- Warriors: Philosophy in Mohawk Land
  • PART II
  • 6. Diversity and Debate
  • Afterword to the paperback edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index