Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. New York: Pantheon Books, 2014. Link is to the author’s website.
So . . .a 400+-page book on philosophy. Real promising, isn’t it? I hope I can persuade you to read it, even though parts of it are quite challenging and dense. Sometimes you finish a book with a feeling of satisfaction: “I made it through.” Sometimes with almost a sigh of relief: “So that’s what happened!” But once in a great while, at least for me, there’s a feeling of regret: “Now I won’t get to be in the company of these characters any more.” And that’s how I felt about the character of Plato in this book. Suddenly I realized, “Oh no! I’m almost finished, and I don’t want to be. I want to go along with Plato into more of our modern world, hearing his take on all sorts of other situations.” I hope I can get across in this post what a charming, gracious, focused person Plato is in this book.