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18 produkter
German Stranger
Leo Strauss and National Socialism
Häftad, 2012
1066 kr
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Leo Strauss's connection with Martin Heidegger and Carl Schmitt suggests a troubling proximity to National Socialism but a serious critique of Strauss must begin with F. H. Jacobi. While writing his dissertation on this apparently Christian opponent of the Enlightenment, Strauss discovered the …
Plato the Teacher
The Crisis of the Republic
Inbunden, 2012
1983 kr
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In this unique and important book, William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student. Reviving an ancient concern with reconstructing the order in which Plato intended his dialogues …
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Philosopher of the Second Reich
Inbunden, 2012
1348 kr
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When careful consideration is given to Nietzsche’s critique of Platonism and to what he wrote about Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, and to Germany’s place in “international relations” (die Große Politik), the philosopher’s carefully cultivated “pose of untimeliness” is revealed to be an imposture. As …
Martin Heidegger and the First World War
Being and Time as Funeral Oration
Inbunden, 2012
1701 kr
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In a 1934 speech, marking the Twenty-fifth Reunion of his high school class, Martin Heidegger spoke eloquently of classmates killed in the Great War and called on his audience to recognize that the national rebirth now occuring in Hitler’s Germany must continue to draw inspiration from the war …
Plato the Teacher
The Crisis of the Republic
Häftad, 2013
854 kr
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In this unique and important book, William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student. Reviving an ancient concern with reconstructing the order in which Plato intended his dialogues …
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Philosopher of the Second Reich
Häftad, 2014
783 kr
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When careful consideration is given to Nietzsche’s critique of Platonism and to what he wrote about Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, and to Germany’s place in “international relations” (die Große Politik), the philosopher’s carefully cultivated “pose of untimeliness” is revealed to be an imposture. As …
Relay Race of Virtue
Plato's Debts to Xenophon
Inbunden, 2022
1595 kr
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Demonstrates that Plato and Xenophon ought to be regarded less as rivals and more as engaged in a dialogue advancing a common goal of preserving the Socratic legacy.The ancient view that Plato and Xenophon were rivals at least had the merit of allowing them to respond to each other; in modern …
Relay Race of Virtue
Plato's Debts to Xenophon
Häftad, 2023
421 kr
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Demonstrates that Plato and Xenophon ought to be regarded less as rivals and more as engaged in a dialogue advancing a common goal of preserving the Socratic legacy.The ancient view that Plato and Xenophon were rivals at least had the merit of allowing them to respond to each other; in modern …
Martin Heidegger and the First World War
Being and Time as Funeral Oration
Häftad, 2015
783 kr
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In a 1934 speech, marking the Twenty-fifth Reunion of his high school class, Martin Heidegger spoke eloquently of classmates killed in the Great War and called on his audience to recognize that the national rebirth now occuring in Hitler’s Germany must continue to draw inspiration from the war …
Guardians in Action
Plato the Teacher and the Post-Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus
Inbunden, 2016
1842 kr
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If you’ve ever wondered why Plato staged Timaeus as a kind of sequel to Republic, or who its unnamed missing fourth might be; or why he joined Critias to Timaeus, and whether or not that strange dialogue is unfinished; or what we should make of the written critique of writing in Phaedrus, and of …
Guardians in Action
Plato the Teacher and the Post-Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus
Häftad, 2019
714 kr
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If you’ve ever wondered why Plato staged Timaeus as a kind of sequel to Republic, or who its unnamed missing fourth might be; or why he joined Critias to Timaeus, and whether or not that strange dialogue is unfinished; or what we should make of the written critique of writing in Phaedrus, and of …
Revival of Platonism in Cicero's Late Philosophy
Platonis aemulus and the Invention of Cicero
Häftad, 2018
714 kr
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Less than two years before his murder, Cicero created a catalogue of his philosophical writings that included dialogues he had written years before, numerous recently completed works, and even one he had not yet begun to write, all arranged in the order he intended them to be read, beginning with …
Guardians on Trial
The Reading Order of Plato's Dialogues from Euthyphro to Phaedo
Inbunden, 2016
2127 kr
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Based on a conception of Reading Order introduced and developed in his Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington; 2012) and The Guardians in Action: Plato the Teacher and the Post-Republic Dialogues from Timaeus to Theaetetus (Lexington; 2016), William H. F. Altman now completes his …
Ascent to the Good
The Reading Order of Plato’s Dialogues from Symposium to Republic
Inbunden, 2018
2771 kr
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At the crisis of his Republic, Plato asks us to imagine what could possibly motivate a philosopher to return to the Cave voluntarily for the benefit of others and at the expense of her own personal happiness. This book shows how Plato has prepared us, his students, to recognize that the sun-like …
Plato and Demosthenes
Recovering the Old Academy
Inbunden, 2022
1278 kr
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Universally regarded as Plato’s student in antiquity, it is the eloquent and patriotic orator Demosthenes—not the pro-Macedonian Aristotle who tutored Alexander the Great—who returned to the dangerous Cave of political life, and thus makes it possible to recover the Old Academy. In Plato and …
Plato and Demosthenes
Recovering the Old Academy
Häftad, 2024
459 kr
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Universally regarded as Plato’s student in antiquity, it is the eloquent and patriotic orator Demosthenes—not the pro-Macedonian Aristotle who tutored Alexander the Great—who returned to the dangerous Cave of political life, and thus makes it possible to recover the Old Academy. In Plato and …
Plotinus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism
Inbunden, 2024
1701 kr
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Unlike other recent studies, Plotinus the Master and the Apotheosis of Imperial Platonism is critical of Plotinus, and in particular of his version of Platonism, here described as “Imperial.” It is in contrast with Plato—a teacher whose dialogues challenge his students to think for themselves—that …
Ascent to the Beautiful
Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium
Inbunden, 2020
2266 kr
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With Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the Reading Order of the Platonic dialogues. This book covers Plato’s elementary dialogues, grappling from the start with F. D. E. Schleiermacher, who created an enduring prejudice against the works Plato …
