Platonism in the Midwest

ix, 216 pp. "This is the story of a grass roots philosophical movement before the time when philosophy became a technical discipline. It introduces figures and groups in the Midwest who believed that through study of Plato and Neoplatonic authors, one might acquire a world view sufficient for that time and for all time. It describes how Hiram K. Jones in Jacksonville, Illinois, succeeded in making the study of Plato an intellectual adventure and how Thomas M. Johnson made the village of Osceola, Missouri, the center of Platonic scholarship."