Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida

by Catherine H. Zuckert

Book Overview

Catherine Zuckert examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the lens of their own decidedly postmodern readings of Plato. She argues that Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, and Derrida, convinced that modern rationalism had exhausted its possibilities, all turned to Plato in order to rediscover the original character of philosophy and to reconceive the Western tradition as a whole...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226993310
• ISBN13: 9780226993317
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"