From the acclaimed writer and thinker--whose award-winning books include both fiction and non-fiction--a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden but essential role in todays debates on love, religion, politics, andscience. Imagine that Plato came to life in the 21st century and set out on a multi-city speaking tour: How would he handle a host on Fox News who challenges him on religion and morality? How would he mediate a debate on the best way to raise a child between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a Tiger Mom? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Platos brain, argues that all his philosophical problems can be solved by our new technologies? What would he make of Google, and the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? With a philosophers depth and a novelists imagination, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us--from sexuality and child-rearing to morality and the meaning of life--by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he encounters the modern world. By reviving the Platonic art of the dialogue for the 21st century, she demonstrates that the questions he first posed continue to confound and enlarge us-- A revisionist analysis of the drama of philosophy explores its hidden but essential role in todays debates on love, religion, politics and science while colorfully imagining the perspectives of Plato on a 21st-century world. By the award-winning author of The Mind-Body Problem. 50,000 first printing. A revisionist analysis of the drama of philosophy explores its hidden but essential role in todays debates on love, religion, politics, and science while colorfully imagining the perspectives of Plato on a twenty-first-century world.
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