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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793500903321

Titolo

Brill's companion to German platonism / / [editor, Alan Kim]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Leiden] : , : Brill, , 2015

ISBN

90-04-28516-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 pages)

Collana

Brill's companions to classical reception

Altri autori (Persone)

KimAlan <1968->

Disciplina

184

Soggetti

Platonists - Germany

Philosophy, Ancient

Germany Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction / Alan Kim -- Plato and the Platonic Tradition in the Philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa / Claudia D’Amico -- Leibniz: The Last Great Christian Platonist / Jack Davidson -- The Infinitesimal Calculus of the Soul: Moses Mendelssohn’s Phädon / Bruce Rosenstock -- Kant and Plato: An Introduction / Manfred Baum -- Hegel’s Plato: A New Departure / Jere O’Neill Surber -- Schleiermacher on Plato: From Form (Introduction to Plato’s Works) to Content (Outlines of a Critique of Previous Ethical Theory) / André Laks -- Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theory of the Platonic Dialogue and Its Legacy / Thomas Alexander Szlezák -- Plato’s Conception of Time at the Foundation of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy / Robert Wicks -- Plato-Reception in the Marburg School / Karl-Heinz Lembeck -- Nietzsche and Plato / Richard Bett -- Phenomenological Platonism: Husserl and Plato / Alan Kim -- Heidegger’s Ambiguous and Unfinished Confrontation with Plato / Francisco J. Gonzalez -- The Tübingen School / Vittorio Hösle -- Form and Language: Gadamer’s Platonism / François Renaud -- Back Matter -- Index of Pre-Modern Authors and Notables (born before 1500) -- Index of Modern Authors and Notables -- Index of Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

For six centuries, Plato has held German philosophy in his grip. Brill’s Companion to German Platonism examines how German thinkers have



interpreted Plato and how in turn he has decisively influenced their thought. Under the editorship of Alan Kim, this companion gathers the work of scholars from four continents, writing on figures from Cusanus and Leibniz to Husserl and Heidegger. Taken together, their contributions reveal a characteristic pattern of “transcendental” interpretations of the mind’s relation to the Platonic Forms. In addition, the volume examines the importance that the dialogue form itself has assumed since the nineteenth century, with essays on Schleiermacher, the Tübingen School, and Gadamer. Brill’s Companion to German Platonism presents both Plato and his German interpreters in a fascinating new light.