1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996385658403316

Autore

Lamboll William

Titolo

Something in answer to Thomas Curtis and B.C.'s reasons why the meeting-house doors were shut up at Reading [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London?, : s.n., 1686]

Descrizione fisica

15 p

Altri autori (Persone)

BuyJohn

PotterJames <fl. 1686.>

Soggetti

Society of Friends - England - Reading

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title.

Signed at end: William Lamboll, John Buy, and the rest concerned.

Letter to Benjamin Cole (p. 9-15) signed: James Potter.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910476887003321

Autore

Soderholm James

Titolo

Platonic Occasions : Dialogues on Literature, Art and Culture / / James Soderholm, Richard Begam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stockholm : , : Stockholm University Press, , 2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 pages)

Disciplina

149.97

Soggetti

Postmodernism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part One: Art and aesthetics  -- Part Two: Evil, death, love, politics  -- Part Three: Philosophical digressions.

Sommario/riassunto

In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns--from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed "We are all Greeks," and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors? Begam and Soderholm's ten dialogues function as a series of dual-meditations that take Plato as an intellectual godfather while presenting a new form of dialogic knowledge based on the friction and frisson of two minds contending, inventing and improvising. The authors discuss not only what is healthy and vigorous about Western culture but also consider where that culture is in retreat, as they seek to understand the legacy of the Enlightenment and its relation to the contemporary moment. Platonic Occasionsis an experiment in criticism that enjoins the reader to imagine what the dialogic imagination can do when inspired by Platonic inquiry, but not bound by a single master and the singular mind. Beyond Socratic maieutics and Cartesian meditation is a form of intellectual interplay where it is impossible not to be of two minds.