Plato as a teacher. Platonov Renaissance and Anti-Modernism in Germany (1890-1933)

This edition is the first book of Richard Field, a young researcher from the University of Martin Luther in Galla, published in 2017. The author explores the topic of an extremely interesting, but almost unknown - "Retraining" Plato in Germany between the beginning of the twentieth century and the onset of National Socialism. It shows how strikingly different from the traditional image of Plato, created by the efforts of those German authors who managed, overcoming the conservatism of classical science about antiquity, to tear Plato from the hands of philologists. The new Plato, presented as a role model, the mentor and teacher of man and the state, was too close to the image of the leading leader who was cultivated by National Socialist ideology. Naturally, after the denazification of Germany, they try not to recall this image of Plato, and in modern Platonism it is unknown