TY  - BOOK
AU  - Soderholm, James
AU  - Begam, Richard
AB  - In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns—from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed “We are all Greeks,” and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors? Begam and Soderholm’s ten dialogues function as a series of dual-meditations that take Plato as an intellectual godfather while presenting a new form of dialogic knowledge based on the friction and frisson of two minds contending, inventing and improvising. The authors discuss not only what is healthy and vigorous about Western culture but also consider where that culture is in retreat, as they seek to understand the legacy of the Enlightenment and its relation to the contemporary moment.Platonic Occasionsis an experiment in criticism that enjoins the reader to imagine what the dialogic imagination can do when inspired by Platonic inquiry, but not bound by a single master and the singular mind. Beyond Socratic maieutics and Cartesian meditation is a form of intellectual interplay where it is impossible not to be of two minds.
DO  - 10.16993/sup.baa
ID  - OAPEN ID: 530650
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 945782900
KW  - dialogue
KW  - plato
KW  - flaubert
KW  - romanticism
KW  - postmodernism
KW  - enlightenment
KW  - eliot
KW  - nietzsche
KW  - conrad
KW  - joyce
KW  - beckett
KW  - modernism
KW  - descartes
KW  - heidegger
KW  - aesthetics
KW  - shakespeare
KW  - byron
KW  - Friedrich Nietzsche
KW  - Hamlet
KW  - René Descartes
KW  - Socrates
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/7a52895e-51f9-40e5-973b-a29cdba140b8/530650.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33229
PB  - Stockholm University Press
PP  - Stockholm
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9789176350034;9789176350027;9789176350010
TI  - Platonic Occasions: Dialogues on Literature, Art and Culturenull
ER  - 
