{"product_id":"9781930972322","title":"One Book, the Whole Universe: Plato's Timaeus Today","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe much-anticipated anthology on Plato’s\u003ci\u003eTimaeus\u003c\/i\u003e—Plato’s singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos—examining all dimensions of one of the most important books in Western Civilization: its philosophy, cosmology, science, and ethics, its literary aspects and reception. Contributions come from leading scholars in their respective fields, including Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Parts of or earlier versions of these papers were first presented at the \u003ci\u003eTimaeus\u003c\/i\u003e Conference, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in September of 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo this day, Plato’s \u003ci\u003eTimaeus\u003c\/i\u003e grounds the form of ethical and political thinking called Natural Law—the view that there are norms in nature that provide the patterns for our actions and ground the objectivity of human values. Beyond the intellectual content of the dialogue’s core, its literary frame is also the source of the myth of Atlantis, giving the West the concept of the “lost world.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Platonic space to Presocratic vortices, from Philosopher-Kings to Craftsman-Gods and from modern physics to the myth of Atlantis, \u003ci\u003eOne Book, The Whole Universe\u003c\/i\u003e presents in one volume the most up-to-date and penetrating scholarship on Plato’s \u003ci\u003eTimaeus\u003c\/i\u003e by some of the greatest minds alive today.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eAnn Bergren\u003cbr\u003e Gábor Betegh\u003cbr\u003e Sean Carroll\u003cbr\u003e Alan Code\u003cbr\u003e Zina Giannopoulou\u003cbr\u003e Verity Harte\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Kjeller Johansen\u003cbr\u003e Charles H. Kahn\u003cbr\u003e Anthony J. Leggett\u003cbr\u003e Anthony A. Long\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Menn \u003cbr\u003e Richard D. Mohr\u003cbr\u003e Kathryn A. Morgan\u003cbr\u003e Alexander P.D. Mourelatos\u003cbr\u003e Ian Mueller\u003cbr\u003e Thomas M. Robinson\u003cbr\u003e Barbara M. Sattler\u003cbr\u003e Allan Silverman\u003cbr\u003e Jon Solomon\u003cbr\u003e Anthony Vidler\u003cbr\u003e Matthias Vorwerk\u003cbr\u003e Donald Zeyl \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Parmenides Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057344200944,"sku":"9781930972322","price":70.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781930972322_p0.jpg?v=1763638129","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781930972322","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}