A Footnote to Plato
(2023)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Wipf and Stock, 2023
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 06 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9798368988016 MWT18503491, 18503491
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Tina Lee Forsee

"An academic novel and a novel of ideas, served up cheerfully and heroically by a very talented writer who doesn't care if both these genres are out of fashion . . .You shouldn't either." -Ptolemy Tompkins, author of The Modern Book of the Dead AMAZON REVIEWS: - "Literary humor at its best." -Petra Barnett - " book is a sort of love letter to philosophy, Plato in particular." -Mike Smith - "You don't have to know Plato to enjoy it, but you will discover something of Plato in reading " -Laura Stevens A Footnote to Plato takes place in 2012 at a tiny liberal arts college in Vermont. A senior philosophy professor finds himself embroiled in a student drama that leads to a false accusation of sexual harassment and an investigation intended to force him out. He faces a disgraceful end to his long career unless he retires immediately. But he refuses to be, as his students like to say, an epic failure. A promising math student resorts to dealing coke to pay for college. What he really needs is a bit of luck. The professor and student meet in the Maintenance Committee and soon form a Socrates-Plato bond. When the professor decides to take him and a small group of students to Greece to film an online lecture series, it's an opportunity of a lifetime for the student, and the professor's last chance to save his reputation-and maybe leave behind a legacy

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