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Platonic Production - Theme and Variations: The Gilson Lectures (Hardcover)
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Platonic Production - Theme and Variations: The Gilson Lectures (Hardcover)
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Platonic Production presents Prof. Stanley Rosen's Etienne Gilson
Lectures, delivered at the Institut Catholique de Paris and now
available in English for first time. His lectures bring Heidegger
and Plato into a conversation around a basic philosophical
question: Does the acquisition of truth resemble discovery or
production? While Rosen undertakes a close examination of
Heidegger's engagement with Plato, exposing some ways in which that
engagement constitutes a misreading, the goals of his study are not
exclusively critical. In arguing against the claim that Plato
stands at the beginning of Western metaphysical history which
culminates in late modern nihilism, Rosen also points out how close
Plato is to some characteristically Heideggerean themes and
formulations. Heidegger is critiqued from the standpoint of Plato,
but it is equally true that Platonic themes (such as the hypothesis
of the Forms) are read anew in light of the questions raised by
Heidegger. In keeping with the overarching theme of the Gilson
Lectures, Rosen's six talks, and the introduction by the volume's
editor aim to demon-strate that metaphysics is always possible,
indeed inescapable, by meditating on the two philosophers whose
thinking, especially where it diverges, centers on that very point.
While Platonic Production takes up some of the most contentious
issues in the Heidegger-Plato relationship, issues which are
addressed in the always expanding scholarly literature and in
Rosen's own earlier work, it is not at all intended exclusively for
specialists in Plato or Heidegger. Rather, it is hoped that this
volume will appeal to all who are interested in Greek and German
thought and in the foundational questions which underlie the
history of philosophy as a whole, both ancient and modern.
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