Will adopts a "modified
Platonism" positing the ideas as the substratum of a lived language, which reaches its apex in a "historical motion-sensitivity" of literary masterpieces, in which the activity of the artist is realized in an internal embodiment of a particular work as the complete realization of its ideal--the "literary universal." The greatest literary works exhibit the ideal goal of their authors by achieving a paradigmatic integrated presentation of character and plot.
Let us begin with some modern Western critiques generally thought to be responsible for a contemporary "reversal of
Platonism" in the West, especially those of Derrida and Deleuze, who sophisticatedly, and even sophistically, undo
Platonism with a simultaneous oedipal respect for Plato, and who would themselves acknowledge for their anti-Platonism "a profound alliance with Plato."7 "Was it not Plato himself", Deleuze rhetorically asks, "Who pointed out the direction for the reversal of
Platonism?"8
Lane Fox's treatment of the circle of Milan and the question of Augustine's struggle between the attractions of
Platonism and Christianity is measured.
The key elements of
Platonism he finds in modernist drama are its opposition to "the harsh worldview of tragedy," its commitment to a "theater of ideas," and its use of metatheatrical--if not anti-theatrical--techniques to develop a critical style that employs ideas derived directly from Plato.
Her discussion of the role of Isis (44-57) neatly points out that no ancient mention of Apuleius connects him with the Isis-cult, and suggests that the overall Isis-plot (like the surface
Platonism of 'Cupid and Psyche') is at least partly a literary convenience to create unity in the novel, while being fully compatible (cf.
Leonardo begins with a vision that goes back at least partially to Florentine
Platonism according to which beauty belongs to an ideal sphere, superior to the corruption of the material world; but this reflection is full of implications that are in no way consoling.
Thus, Islamic philosophers are perceived to be evolving within the Aristotelian tradition of neo-
Platonism, and to be no more than heirs of late Antiquity, albeit with an Islamic 'touch'.
Dodd (The Parables of the Kingdom), who could be considered the champion of "realized eschatology." Apparently the ahistorical
Platonism of Dodd has no place in a historicizing reading.
After a short biography he discusses the theory of spatial composition, proportions and harmonies, classical orders, Palladio's '
Platonism' and, finally and most interestingly, 'Palladianism Today'.
When it comes to the philosophical issue of the nature of truth, most mathematicians fall into one of two camps called formalism and
Platonism. Formalists take the position that mathematical statements don't have an intrinsic truth or falsity--that the only thing that can ever be said about a statement is whether it can be proved in a given axiom system.
For me, the sculpture represents the triumph of dialectical protoplasm over supernac
platonism.
On the other hand, Aristotle rejects what Charles calls "
Platonism." In some passages,
Platonism is the epistemological thesis that essences can be grasped by any thinker, whatever his definitional and explanatory practices may be (350).
He then lays the foundation for his claim by devoting part 2 to an exhaustive exposition of the historical context, directing attention to the Ottonian Revival of the tenth century, when monastic reform, a revival of learning, and especially Christian
Platonism emerged.
Meanwhile, at artforum.com, Robert Pincus-Witten's "Eva Hesse: Post-Minimalism into Sublime" (November 1971), Germano Celant's "Tony Cragg and Industrial
Platonism" (1981), and Allan Sekula's "War Without Bodies" (1991) are reproduced in their entirety.
