Tae-Yeoun Keum

Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the HumanitiesWinner of the Istvan Hont Book Prize An ambitious reinterpretation and defence of Plato's basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths was central to the founding of philosophical rationalism. Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought examines Plato's use of myths—such as the Myth of Metals...