LEADER 03419 am 22006373u 450 001 9910765722603321 005 20230807214139.0 010 $a9789176350034$b(PDF ebook) 010 $z9789176350003$b(paperback) 035 $a(CKB)3710000000377237 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001662660 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16447628 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001662660 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14992626 035 $a(PQKB)10859603 035 $a(OCoLC)945782900 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00057378 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000377237 100 $a20160829h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPlatonic occasions $edialogues on literature, art and culture /$fRichard Begam & James Soderholm 210 1$aStockholm, Sweden :$cStockholm University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 189 pages) $cillustrations; digital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStockholm English Studies ;$v1 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: 9789176350003 327 $aPart One: Art and aesthetics -- Part Two: Evil, death, love, politics -- Part Three: Philosophical digressions. 330 $aIn Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns?from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed ?We are all Greeks,? and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors? Begam and Soderholm?s ten dialogues function as a series of dual-meditations that take Plato as an intellectual godfather while presenting a new form of dialogic knowledge based on the friction and frisson of two minds contending, inventing and improvising. The authors discuss not only what is healthy and vigorous about Western culture but also consider where that culture is in retreat, as they seek to understand the legacy of the Enlightenment and its relation to the contemporary moment. Platonic Occasionsis an experiment in criticism that enjoins the reader to imagine what the dialogic imagination can do when inspired by Platonic inquiry, but not bound by a single master and the singular mind. Beyond Socratic maieutics and Cartesian meditation is a form of intellectual interplay where it is impossible not to be of two minds. 410 0$aStockholm English studies ;$v1. 606 $aCriticism (Philosophy) 606 $aArt$xPhilosophy 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPhilosophical literature 606 $aImaginary conversations 606 $aDialogues, English 615 0$aCriticism (Philosophy) 615 0$aArt$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPhilosophical literature. 615 0$aImaginary conversations. 615 0$aDialogues, English. 676 $a111.85 676 $a801.95 700 $aBegam$b Richard$f1950-,$0803354 702 $aSoderholm$b James$f1957-, 801 0$bPQKB 801 2$bAuAdUSA 801 2$bUkMaJRU 912 $a9910765722603321 996 $aPlatonic occasions$93654602 997 $aUNINA