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Author | : Paul Levinson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2007-02-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780765311979 |
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Paul Levinson's astonishing new SF novel is a surprise and a delight: In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialog of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend, Max. The trail leads her to time machines in a gentlemen's club in London and in New York, and into the past--and to a time traveler from her future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades (of the honeyed thighs) to Thomas Appleton, the great nineteenth-century American publisher, to Socrates himself appear. With surprises in every chapter, Paul Levinson has outdone himself in The Plot to Save Socrates.
Author | : Paul Levinson |
Publisher | : Tor Books |
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ISBN | : 9780765344786 |
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"In the year 2042, Sierra, a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialogue of Socrates, recently discovered, in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas, the elderly scholar who has shown her the document, disappears the next day, and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the astonishing manuscript with the help of her classical-scholar boyfriend, Max." "The track leads Sierra to a time machine in a gentlemen's club in London where she is vaulted into the past and encounters an enigmatic time traveler from an even more distant future, posing as Heron of Alexandria in A.D. 150. Complications, mysteries, travels, and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history, or to do so herself. And she finds that time travel raises more questions than it answers."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : John Kotselas |
Publisher | : Athena Pub |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780966231694 |
Download Socrates in New York Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Lesley Klenk |
Publisher | : Eld Inlet Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2021-03-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781736808702 |
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"I grew up on a cotton farm in north-eastern Alabama where three generations of Jeffersons and Ashbys considered the land their own. I was young enough to believe that, although there was a wrinkled, paper deed to the farm in an old drawer somewhere, the fact that the Jeffersons were Negro and the Ashbys were white did not impact the entwining of our families or the yield of rows of cotton planted to the horizon. A day came, however, when the story of how I came to inherit the name of a Greek philosopher-who lived his life questioning others-pulled us out of the shadows of ignorance and into the harsh light of truth." Socrates Bravo Jefferson, a young Negro scholar in 1928 Alabama, dreads leaving his family to attend college preparatory school. Through a particularly arduous cotton season in which ownership of their farm hangs in the balance, Socrates's family struggles to keep their land, while a Farm Bureau agent, a depraved Northern outsider, and a drove of wild hogs threaten to destroy them, the farm's pickers, and the way they have lived for the last hundred years.Socrates despairs that all is lost. But, when a painful story from the farm's past brings the families together, the magic of baseball played under the lights, a plot of vibrant dahlias protected by parasols, and a loved one's calculated sacrifice all lead to new beginnings for the individuals in How Socrates Bravo Got His Name.
Author | : Paul Levinson |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2000-11-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780812567755 |
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Levinson, acclaimed short fiction writer and president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, has penned his first novel--about a forensic detective who is caught in a struggle that dates all the way back to the dawn of humanity on Earth. Unless he can unravel the genetic puzzle of the Silk Code, he'll die.
Author | : Michael Trapp |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351899082 |
Download Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to the medieval, renaissance and modern worlds in a provocative variety of roles: as paradigmatic philosopher and representative (for good or ill) of ancient philosophical culture in general; as practitioner of a distinctive philosophical method, and a distinctive philosophical lifestyle; as the ostensible originator of startling doctrines about politics and sex; as martyr (the victim of the most extreme of all miscarriages of justice); as possessor of an extraordinary, and extraordinarily significant physical appearance; and as the archetype of the hen-pecked intellectual. To this day, he continues to be the most readily recognized of ancient philosophers, as much in popular as in academic culture. This volume, along with its companion, Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, aims to do full justice to the source material (philosophical, literary, artistic, political), and to the range of interpretative issues it raises. It opens with an Introduction summarizing the reception of Socrates up to 1800, and describing scholarly study since then. This is followed by sections on the hugely influential Socrateses of Hegel, Kirkegaard and Nietzsche; representations of Socrates (particularly his erotic teaching) principally inspired by Plato's Symposium; and political manipulations of Socratic material, especially in the 20th century. A distinctive feature is the inclusion of Cold War Socrateses, both capitalist and communist.
Author | : Dan Millman |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 006184151X |
Download The Journeys of Socrates Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The international bestselling author is bck with a page-turning tale of the origins of the peaceful warrior In the heart of nineteenth century Tsarist Russia an orphaned boy born of both Jewish and Cossack blood desperately seeks to find a place in a dangerous world. Sergei Ivanov’s (Socrates’) journey from a military academy to America is a spellbinding and tragic odyssey of courage and love. This riveting novel reveals how a boy became a man, how a man became a warrior, and how a warrior discovered peace. From his birth, this boy—Sergei Ivanov—is destined to become the peaceful warrior and sage who changed the life of Dan Millman and millions of readers worldwide.
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Publisher | : PediaPress |
Total Pages | : 105 |
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Download Plato, Aristotle and Socrates Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Paul Levinson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134738811 |
Download Digital McLuhan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and why the Wired generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to understand the global village in the digital age.
Author | : Jostein Gaarder |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2007-03-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466804270 |
Download Sophie's World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it she is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. Thus begins Jostein Gaarder's unique novel, which is not only a mystery, but also a complete and entertaining history of philosophy.