Tuesday, March 11, 2014

What Would Plato and David Foster Wallace Talk About? A Conversation With Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

What Would Plato and David Foster Wallace Talk About? A Conversation With Rebecca Newberger Goldstein


In Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away, Plato comes screaming into the 21st century. What Goldstein does in this college course of a book is quite audacious and charmingly goofy; she imagines what it would be like if Plato were on a book tour, today, in our modern world — and it would be quite a journey: sparring with fake Tiger Moms at the 92nd St. Y, fake Bill O’Reillys on Fox News, and giving out agony aunt advice to the lovelorn. … Read More

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