Platonic Occasions

"What have we learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors? In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare. Begam and Soderholm’s ten dialogues function as a series of dual-meditations. The dialogues suggest that “We are all Greeks,” and yet questions what we have actually learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors. Platonic Occasions is an experiment in criticism in a form of intellectual interplay where the authors invite the reader to imagine what the dialogic imagination can do when inspired by Platonic inquiry. Richard Begam is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. James Soderholm is currently Professor of Humanities at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury"