Brill's Companion to German Platonism

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-25067-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Brill's companions on philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Alan Kim

2 Plato and the Platonic Tradition in the Philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa

Claudia D’Amico

3 Leibniz: The Last Great Christian Platonist

Jack Davidson

4 The Infinitesimal Calculus of the Soul: Moses Mendelssohn’s Phädon

Bruce Rosenstock

5 Kant and Plato: An Introduction

Manfred Baum

6 Hegel’s Plato: A New Departure

Jere O’Neill Surber

7 Schleiermacher on Plato: From Form (Introduction to Plato’s Works) to Content (Outlines of a Critique of Previous Ethical Theory)

André Laks

8 Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theory of Dialogue and Its Legacy

Thomas Alexander Szlezák

9 Plato’s Conception of Time at the Foundation of Schopenhauer’s Philosophy

Robert Wicks

10 Plato-Reception in the Marburg School

Karl-Heinz Lembeck

11 Nietzsche and Plato

Richard Bett

12 Phenomenological Platonism: Husserl and Plato

Alan Kim

13 Heidegger’s Ambiguous and Unfinished Confrontation with Plato

Francisco J. Gonzalez

14 The Tübingen School

Vittorio Hösle

15 Idea and Language: Gadamer’s Platonism

François Renaud

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Kim, Ph.D., McGill (2001), teaches Greek philosophy at SUNY-Stony Brook. In addition to his book, Plato in Germany (Academia, 2010), he has published in Phronesis, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.