German Political Thought and the Discourse of Platonism: Finding the Way Out of the Cave

by Paul Bishop

Taking Plato's allegory of the cave as its starting-point, this book demonstrates how later European thinkers can be read as a reaction and a response to key aspects of this allegory and its discourse of enchainment and liberation. Focusing on key thinkers in the tradition of European (and specifically German) political thought including Kant, Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School, it relates them back to such foundational figures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030045099
• ISBN13: 9783030045098
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"