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One Book, the Whole Universe
. Ed(S): Mohr, Richard D.; Sattler, Barbara M.
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Description for One Book, the Whole Universe
Paperback. An anthology on "Plato's Timaeus" - Plato's singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos. Editor(s): Mohr, Richard D.; Sattler, Barbara. Num Pages: 406 pages, 53 illus. BIC Classification: HPCA; PGK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 171 x 23. Weight in Grams: 792.
The much-anticipated anthology on Plato’s Timaeus—Plato’s singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos—examining all dimensions of one of the most important books in Western Civilization: its philosophy, cosmology, science, and ethics, its literary aspects and reception. Contributions come from leading scholars in their respective fields, including Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Parts of or earlier versions of these papers were first presented at the Timaeus Conference, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in September of 2007.
To this day, ... Read more
The much-anticipated anthology on Plato’s Timaeus—Plato’s singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos—examining all dimensions of one of the most important books in Western Civilization: its philosophy, cosmology, science, and ethics, its literary aspects and reception. Contributions come from leading scholars in their respective fields, including Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Parts of or earlier versions of these papers were first presented at the Timaeus Conference, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in September of 2007.
To this day, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Parmenides Publishing United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Las Vegas, United States
ISBN
9781930972322
SKU
V9781930972322
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Ref
99-1
About . Ed(S): Mohr, Richard D.; Sattler, Barbara M.
Richard D. Mohr is Retired Professor of Philosophy and of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author of God and Forms in Plato (2005), as well as a series of works on social issues — Gays/Justice: A Study of Ethics, Society, and Law (1988); Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies (1992); A More Perfect ... Read more
Reviews for One Book, the Whole Universe
One Book, The Whole Universe is remarkably thorough in the treatment of its chosen text (a thesis that can be confirmed by the index locorum) and contains precisely the sort of articles that one would want and expect in a scholarly collection on the Timaeus. There is scarcely a Timaean topic of traditional interest to scholars that is not mentioned ... Read more