Postmodern Platos - 2nd Edition by Catherine H Zuckert (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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. Zuckert's artful juxtaposition of these seemingly disparate bodies of thought furnishes a synoptic view, not merely of these individual thinkers, but of the broad postmodern landscape as well. The result is a brilliantly conceived work that offers an innovative perspective on the relation between the Western philosophical tradition and the evolving postmodern enterprise.

From the Back Cover

Catherine Zuckert examines the work of five key philosophical figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and through the lens of their own distinctive and decidedly postmodern readings of Plato. The result is an ambitious and brilliantly conceived work that offers an innovative perspective both on that tradition and on the postmodern enterprise.

About the Author

Catherine H. Zuckert is the Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Postmodern Platos and a coauthor of The Truth about Leo Strauss, both published by the University of Chicago Press.