Overview

Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.

Full Product Details

Author:   Jeremy Bell ,  Michael Naas ,  Christopher Long ,  Claudia Baracchi
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9780253016171

ISBN 10:   0253016177
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   01 May 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

"Editors' Introduction: Plato's Menagerie Part I. The Animal of Fable and Myth 1. Making Music with Aesop's Fables in the Phaedo / Heidi Northwood 2. ""Talk to the Animals"": On the Myth of Cronos in the Statesman / David Farrell Krell Part II. Socrates as muōps and narkē 3. American Gadfly: Plato and the Problem of Metaphor / Michael Naas 4. Till Human Voices Wake Us and We Drown: The Aporia-fish in the Meno / Thomas Thorp Part III. The Socratic Animal as Truth-Teller and Provocateur 5. We the Bird-Catchers: Receiving the Truth in the Phaedo and the Apology / S. Montgomery Ewegen 6. The Dog on the Fly / H. Peter Steeves Part IV. The Political Animal 7. Taming Horses and Desires: Plato's Politics of Care / Jeremy Bell 8. Who Let the Dogs Out? Tracking the Philosophical Life among the Wolves and Dogs of the Republic / Christopher Long Part V. The (En)gendered Animal 9. The City of Sows and Sexual Differentiation in the Republic / Marina McCoy 10. Animality and Sexual Difference in the Timaeus / Sara Brill Part VI. The Philosophical Animal 11. Animal Sacrifice in Plato's Later Methodology / Holly Moore 12. The Animals That Therefore We Were? Aristophanes's Double-Creatures and the Question of Origins / Drew A. Hyland Part VII. Animals and the Afterlife 13. Animals and Angels: The Myth of Life as a Whole in Republic 10 / Claudia Baracchi 14. Of Beasts and Heroes: The Promiscuity of Humans and Animals in the Myth of Er / Francisco J. Gonzalez List of Contributors Plato's Animals Index Name and Subject Index"

Reviews

Will provide fertile ground for future work in this area. -Jill Gordon, author of Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death Shows readers of Plato that he remains significant to issues currently pursued in Continental thought and especially in relation to Derrida and Heidegger. -Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver A unique and intriguing point of entry into the dialogues and a variety of concerns from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics, politics, and aesthetics. -Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky Plato's Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought. -Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Will provide fertile ground for future work in this area. -Jill Gordon, author of Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death Shows readers of Plato that he remains significant to issues currently pursued in Continental thought and especially in relation to Derrida and Heidegger. -Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver A unique and intriguing point of entry into the dialogues and a variety of concerns from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics, politics, and aesthetics. -Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky

Author Information

Jeremy Bell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is author of Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media and Derrida From Now On.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions