Postmodern Platos : Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida
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Postmodern Platos : Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida
University of Chicago Press, c1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-343) and index
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ISBN 9780226993300
Description
This study examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of their own decidedly postmodern readings of Plato. The author 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 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 work that offers a perspective on the relation between the Western philosophical tradition and the evolving postmodern enterprise.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Postmodern Platos 1: Nietzsche's Rereadings of Plato 2: Heidegger's New Beginning 3: Gadamer's Path: From Heidegger to Plato 4: Strauss's Way Back to Plato 5: "Primitive Platonism": Strauss's Response to Radical Historicism 6: Reconceiving the Western Tradition: Strauss's Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy 7: Derrida's Deconstruction of Plato 8: Derrida's New [Hi]story 9: The Three Paths from Nietzsche and Heidegger List of Abbreviations Notes Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226993317
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This study examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of their own decidedly postmodern readings of Plato. The author 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 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 work that offers a perspective on the relation between the Western philosophical tradition and the evolving postmodern enterprise.
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