Questioning Platonism

Questioning PlatonismExplores interpretations of Plato by Heidegger, Derrida, Irigaray, Cavarero, and Gadamer. Given the conception of philosophy held by continental thinkers, and in particular their greater sensitivity to the kinship of philosophy and literature, Drew A. Hyland argues that they should be much more attentive to the literary dimension of Plato's thinking than they have been. He believes they would find in the dialogues not the various forms of "Platonism"

The book includes computational problems and makes use of the Python programming language to make numerical calculations accessible to any science student

It adds a new dimension to scholarly understandings of popular political culture at the turn of the century

the rhetoric and devotion to the antitax cause in the 1990s was more pronounced than in the past

These essays include a consideration of the twinned trajectories of the medieval heroes Robin Hood and King Arthur from medieval literature to modern television

It discusses selected real-world blockchains and their real-world applications

Hoffman situates Agnon in the context of twentieth-century literature and examines such central issues in Agnon's art as the relationship of the literary text to traditions of sacred writings

the first monarch of ‘modern’ Greece

It ranges across the Elizabethan

and wonder of nature have been justly celebrated in all of the religious traditions of the world

with an empire that stretched from beyond the Euphrates in the north to much of what is now Sudan in the south

Nabokov's Lolita

Until now these changes have frequently prompted both scholars and the media to suggest a whole new type of political party