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

• TeilnehmendeR: Corrigan, Kevin.; Turner, John Douglas.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval philosophy, mathematics, and science. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction. Plato And Platonisms /; The Individual Contributions To The Volume /; Platonic Dialectic: The Path And The Goal /; What Is A God According To Plato? /; Victorinus, Parmenides Commentaries And The Platonizing Sethian Treatises /; Proclus And The Ancients /; Virtue, Marriage, And Parenthood In Simplicius’ Commentary On Epictetus’ ‘Encheiridion’ /; How To Apply The Modern Concepts Of Mathesis Universalis And Scientia Universalis To Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Platonisms, Gilbert Of Poitiers, And Descartes /; Real Atheism And Cambridge Platonism: Men Of Latitude, Polemics, And The Great Dead Philosophers /; The Language Of Metaphysics Ancient And Modern /; The Platonic Forms As Gesetze: Could Paul Natorp Have Been Right? /; Crying In Plato’S Teeth—W.B. Yeats And Platonic Inspiration /; The Face Of The Other: A Comparison Between The Thought Of Emmanuel Levinas, Plato, And Plotinus /; Derrida Reads (Neo-) Platonism /; Bibliography /; General Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-271) and index.
• ISBN: 1282397060; 9786612397066; 9047420160
• ISSN: 1871-188X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Kevin Corrigan, John D. Turner.

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.