misReading Plato: Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask

ISBN-13: 9781032062693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Matthew Clemente; Bryan Cocchiara; William Hendel

Opis

This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights, reflections on the nature of the human psyche, and the human condition.

Spis treści

Part 1: Aesthetics as First Philosophy  1. The Multiplicity of Man: Beyond the Postmodern  2. Farrago: Mythos and Logos in Plato's Phaedrus  3. Plato at the Opera: The Sounds of Philosophia  4. True Lies: A Defense of the Sophists  Part 2: The Ethics of Desire  5. Blinded by Desire: Self-Deception and the Possibility of the True Lie in Plato's Republic  6. Philosophical "Descent": Between the Philosopher and the Other  7. "Halt!": Socrates, Levinas, and the Divine Sign  8. Ignorance, Flattery, and Dialectic: Philosophical Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias  Part 3: The Desire of Ethics  9. Being & Seeming: On Socractes' Ontological Humiliation of the Sophists  10. The Noble Taboo: Homoerotic Desire and Philosophic Inquiry  11. Division and Proto-Racialism in the Statesman  12. Hunting in Plato: On Noticing  13. The Philosophical Poet and the Poetic Philosopher  14. In Search of the Natural Beginning  15. Plato's Final Dialogue  16. Who is the Philosopher King?