Plato and Platonism (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Contributors
By Walter Pater
Introduction by Martin Golding
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- Mar 13, 2012
- Page Count
- 224 pages
- Publisher
- BookAnnex
- ISBN-13
- 9781411466463
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
[T]he first true and correctly proportioned presentation of Platonism that has been given to the general reader.”-Paul Shorey
Through his idiosyncratic presentation of Plato, Pater offers us an account of a peculiarly modern frame of mind. He converts Plato’s search for a primordial and transcendent unity into a poetic evocation of a material life that is prized in being lived from moment to moment.
The book is implicitly a manifesto, more authoritative for the way it seems rooted in an “historical” account of the great founder of Western philosophy. It conveys the mental world of fifth-century Greece through a doctrine of experience that is in the process of becoming the emblem of early Modernism.
Through his idiosyncratic presentation of Plato, Pater offers us an account of a peculiarly modern frame of mind. He converts Plato’s search for a primordial and transcendent unity into a poetic evocation of a material life that is prized in being lived from moment to moment.
The book is implicitly a manifesto, more authoritative for the way it seems rooted in an “historical” account of the great founder of Western philosophy. It conveys the mental world of fifth-century Greece through a doctrine of experience that is in the process of becoming the emblem of early Modernism.
