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This book reveals the influence of a long line of teachers, including Hermes Tristmegistus, Pythagoras, Plato, Plotinus, and especially the Florentine scholar and mystic Marsilio Ficino on Shakespeare and how the Neoplatonic philosophy of love shaped the inner meaning of his work. Author Jill Line shows how Shakespeare’s plays mirror the progress of the soul, in diverse conditions and situations, as it returns to the divine unity of all things.

With a shrewd eye for the telling example, David Kirp relates stories of marketing incursions into places as diverse as New York University's philosophy department and the University of Virginia's business school, the high-minded University of Chicago and for-profit DeVry University. He describes how universities "brand" themselves for greater appeal in the competition for top students; how academic super-stars are wooed at outsized salaries to boost an institution's visibility and prestige; how...