A Less Familiar Plato by Kevin Corrigan
In this book, Kevin Corrigan sheds light on aspects of Plato's thought that are less familiar to contemporary readers. He reveals a Plato who believes in Forms but is not essentialist, who develops a scientific view of perception in the middle and late dialogues, and who offers positive models of art and science. Corrigan shows how Plato articulates a broader view of intelligible reality in which embodiment is affirmative and the mind-soul-body continuum has an eidetic structure, and where even failure and the imperfect are included. He also demonstrates that Plato developed an ideal, yet finely layered view of love that provided a practical guide throughout antiquity; and that the dialogues and unwritten teachings can be understood in a mutually open-ended, non-antagonistic way. Corrigan's book provides a guide to Plato in an unexpected key and poses important questions regarding imagination, divine inspiration, and Forms and the Good, among other topics.
'… this original and wide-ranging book deserves and rewards careful engagement' John D. Proios, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His recent publications include Love, Friendship, Beauty and the Good: Plato, Aristotle, and the later tradition, 2018; Plotinus. Ennead VI 8, On the Free Will of the One, 2017 (with John D. Turner). A Text Worthy of Plotinus: The Correspondence of A. H. Armstrong, Paul Henry S. J., Hans-Rudolph Schwyzer, E. R. Dodds, Jean Trouillard, Jésus Igal, 1952–1989, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020 (with Suzanne Stern-Gillet and José Baracat); and Plotin. Plotin. Oeuvres complètes, Traités 30-33, Tome 2. Collection des Universités de France. Série grecque, 482. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2021 (with Jean-Marc Narbonne, Lorenzo Ferroni, John D. Turner, Zeke Mazur, Simon Fortier).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009324854 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009324853 |
| Title | A Less Familiar Plato |
| Author | Kevin Corrigan |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Religion And Platonism |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-11-09 |
| Number of pages | 350 |
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