JACOB KLEIN (PHILOSOPHER)

'Jacob Klein' (1899-1978) was a philosopher and interpreter of Plato. A student of Martin Heidegger, he worked as a tutor at St. John's College, U.S. from 1937 until his death.
Klein, "known affectionately as Jasha, was Heidegger's star graduate student in philosophy (before Heidegger went weird) and one of the world's preeminent interpreters of Plato and the Platonic tradition. He later served as dean at my undergraduate school after fleeing the Nazis, one of many Jewish scholars who were no longer safe in Europe. Simon Kaplan, a respected Jewish scholar in Russia, fled the Communists in similar fashion and later joined the faculty at St. John's as well" (Burk 2004).

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Works

★ ''Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origins of Algebra''. M.I.T Press. Translated from German.

★ ''A Commentary on Plato's Meno''. University of Chicago Press.

★ ''Plato's Trilogy: Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman''. University of Chicago Press.

★ ''Lectures and Essays''. St. John's College Press (Annapolis MD).

References

★ Burk, Robin (2004), "What I Learned from Some Eminent Emigre Scholars", Eprint.
American philosophers