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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
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"[A]nyone interested in the interpretation of Plato's works will surely find this book an exciting source of inspiration." - Miquel Solans, in: Phenomenological Reviews
