As we've continued through the theorists, it seemed every other one had some aspect of their theory that was tied to Plato. Thus: the Map of Greater Literary Theory. Let's take a tour, shall we?
Beginning at the city of Platopolis, one can wander north along Language to find such other metro-areas as Lacanville (warning: as clothes do not truly exist, this is a nudist colony) and de Saussureburg (warning: there are signs everywhere, but good luck figuring them out as this town is home to the famed Arbitrary Fields). If you want to visit Freudson (formerly Freudsmother) and the looming Towers of Envy from Lacanville, you WILL need to travel through Saussureburg (along the pallus-highway). To get to Nietszcheshire from Platopolis, one needs to brave the Dark Forest of "No Truth," a great obstacle to the Form-oriented Platopolitan. All of these cities explore language and its aribitrary or even treacherous nature.
Whilst in Lacanville, though, one can visit the mother-city of Hegelburg, connected by recognition. Now, be warned, Platopolitan: you are entering the area that houses the Lake of Genius, where art is considered...good. From Hegelburg one can travel along the spirit of the times to Emersonville, or take free-play or the artist-as-genius paths to the Nature Valley, home to the split-cities of STC-Ridge and Wordsworthsonville. Be warned, however; ever since the Wall of Awkward Estrangement was built, the two cities have had barely any contact with each other. You must go around the wall, along the art-is-good road, to reach Aristotopolis.
Aristotopolis is the largest city outside of Platopolis; they are, in fact, rival cities. Located at the banks of the Physical is Real River, Aristotopolis sits pretty on the art-is-good freeway, leading the smaller Sidneyville. However, if you take hermenteutics to the north-east, you will find several branches that lead to such locales as Maimonidesburgstein, home to the massive Lightning Rod of Perfect Reading--surpassed only by the Towers of Envy to the northwest and alternately obscured/revealed by thick clouds (warning: constant lightning storms have prompted an indefinite fire-danger protocol). Along the same path (or, if traveling from Maimonidesburgstein, along the literal/figurative byway), is the bustling city of Augustinton (home to the one of the largest inter-linguistic schools in the area). Back along the hermeneutics, one can find out in the verdant valleys of multiple interpretations the city of Schleiermachervilleburgtonson and, if one is brave enough to tackle the massive peak of Mount Argument, one can find de Pizanville, a city set aside from all others and with an overwhelming female majority.
To the east of Platopolis one can travel southerly on the abstract, or there no 'real' physical world road, but one will then need to cross the Peaks of Dangerous Art, the last (and relatively smaller) part of the greater Artistic Mountain range (which blocks Platopolis completely from the art-loving cities to the southwest--though rumors persist that there are small goat trails throughout the treacherous mountain range). If one can pass through the Peaks of Dangerous Art, one can reach Barthesburg (which houses many libraries, though no one visits them--it's all in your head, the locals say) and further along, Kantianville. If you take the standard-of-art road, and are willing to cross the Physical is Real River, you can reach Humeston.
But you can also take mimesis out of Platopolis, branching off to find Horkheimer/Adorno/burg near the Mass Art Pond (fed from the great Mimetic Sea via the Culture Industry Deltas), or continuing to find Marx/Engels/ville/burg, right on the banks of the Commodity Creek (also fed from the Mimetic Sea). From Marx/Engels/ville/burg (or from mimesis, if one is traveling from Platopolis), you can take the people-as-ideology (capitalism) road to Althusserton.
And, if you are truly a brave Platopolitan, you can travel along an obscure branch of mimesis to find Wollestonecraftston, but it is a distant city, beyond the Valley of Feminine Education. There are rumors that de Pizanville is brokering an alliance with Wollestonecraftston; they claim that is for the purposes of education and at the bidding of Reason, but Freudson citizens persist that the females are staging a coup out of jealousy for their Towers of Envy.
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