Questioning Platonism

Drew A. Hyland is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College and the author of several books, including Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues, also published by SUNY Press.

• Preface Introduction 1. Heidegger's Plato 2. Derrida's Plato 3. Irigaray's Plato 4. Cavarero's Plato 5. Gadamer's Plato Notes Bibliography Index

"[Via] the subtle interplay of critique and affirmation … Hyland works through a remarkable web of dialectical relations." — Journal of the History of Philosophy"This is the first work of which I know that actually attempts to look at the whole of continental philosophy from the perspective of its approach to reading Plato. Hyland's own orientation to Plato focuses on and heeds the dramatic elements in the dialogues of Plato, and he argues effectively that any attempt to interpret Plato in isolation from these elements is faulty. It is a very lucid work." — Walter Brogan, coeditor of American Continental Philosophy: A Reader"The book undertakes to show how the reduction of the Platonic texts to doctrinal Platonism pervades, for reasons that are far from accidental, even those discourses based on the practice of close textual reading and informed by hermeneutical acuity. A compelling and sorely needed work." — Claudia Baracchi, author of Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic