BookOne book, the whole universe : Plato's Timaeus today
Main title
- One book, the whole universe : Plato's Timaeus today / edited by Richard D. Mohr and Barbara M. Sattler.
Published/Created
- Las Vegas : Parmenides Pub., 2010.
More Information
LCCN Permalink
Description
- 406 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
ISBN
- 9781930972322 (pbk.)
- 1930972326 (pbk.)
- 193097261X (e-book)
- 9781930972612 (e-book)
LC classification
- B387 .O53 2010
Related names
Contents
- Plato's cosmic manual : introduction, reader's guide, and acknowledgments / Richard D. Mohr -- Plato's Timaeus : some resonances in modern physics and cosmology / Anthony J. Leggett -- Cosmic craftsmanship in Plato and Stoicism / Anthony A. Long -- Philosopher kings and craftsman-gods / Allan Silverman -- Place of cosmology in Plato's later dialogues / Charles H. Kahn -- Maker or father? : the demiurge from Plutarch to Plotinus / Matthias Vorwerk -- Plato on (just about) everything : some observations on the Timaeus and other dialogues / Thomas M. Robinson -- Visualizing Platonic space / Donald Zeyl -- Receptacle and the primary bodies : something from nothing? / Verity Harte -- Timaeus and the critique of presocratic vortices / Stephen Menn -- What's the matter? : some neo-Platonist answers / Ian Mueller -- Derrida's Khôra, or Unnaming the Timaean receptacle / Zina Giannopoulou -- Should Aristotle have recognized final causes in Plato's Timaeus? / Thomas K. Johansen -- Aristotle on Plato on weight / Alan Code -- What makes a myth eikôs? : remarks inspired by Myles Burnyeat's Eikôs mythos / Gábor Betegh -- Epistemological section (29b-d) of the proem in Timaeus' speech : M. F. Burnyeat on eikôs mythos, and comparison with Xenophanes B34 and B35 / Alexander P. D. Mourelatos -- Time for learning and for counting : Egyptians, Greeks, and empirical processes in Plato's Timaeus / Barbara M. Sattler -- Narrative orders in the Timaeus and Critias / Kathryn A. Morgan -- Timaeus in tinseltown : Atlantis in film / Jon Solomon -- Atlantis effect : the lost origins of architecture / Anthony Vidler -- Plato's Timaeus and the aesthetics of "animate form" / Ann Bergren -- Time and change in an eternal universe / Sean M. Carroll.
Browse by shelf order
Notes
- Chiefly derived from papers presented at a conference held Sept. 13-16, 2007 at the University of Illinois (Urbana).
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN
- 2010000651
National bib no.
- GBB040573
National bib agency no.
- 015512050
Other system no.
- (OCoLC)ocn298181490
Type of material
- Book
Item Availability
CALL NUMBER
- B387 .O53 2010 LANDOVR
- Copy 2
Request in
- Jefferson or Adams Building Reading Rooms - STORED OFFSITE
Status
- Not Charged
