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Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida

By Catherine H. Zuckert

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0226993302, 9780226993300
LCC
B395
Google Books ID
rbXHQgAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL22644003M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6742720 bytes)
Pages
356\356
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Catherine Zuckert examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lens of their own decidedly postmodern readings of Plato. She argues that Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, and Derrida, convinced that modern rationalism had exhausted its possibilities, all turned to Plato in order to rediscover the original character of philosophy and to reconceive the Western tradition as a whole. Zuckert's artful juxtaposition of these seemingly disparate bodies of thought furnishes a synoptic view, not merely of these individual thinkers, but of the broad postmodern landscape as well. The result is a brilliantly conceived work that offers an innovative perspective on the relation between the Western philosophical tradition and the evolving postmodern enterprise.

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