Volume 36 | Number 2 | Issue 132, Spring/Summer Article 4 4-15-2018 'Love of Knowledge is a Kind of Madness': Competing Platonisms in the Universes of C.S. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft Guillaume Bogiaris University of West Alabama Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, History of Philosophy Commons, and the Political Theory Commons Recommended Citation Bogiaris, Guillaume (2018) "'Love of Knowledge is a Kind of Madness': Competing Platonisms in the Universes of C.S. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 36 : No. 2 , Article 4. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol36/iss2/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 'Love of Knowledge is a Kind of Madness': Competing Platonisms in the Universes of C.S. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft Abstract Though they often gesture in his direction, few contemporary philosophers or writers engage Plato’s ideas. Yet C.S. Lewis and H.P. Lovecraft, two relatively uncelebrated authors of science-fiction fantasy (in academic circles, at least), treat Plato’s notion of human enlightenment extensively.