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: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9780253016133
ISBN 10: 0253016134
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 01 May 2015
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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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 Recommended. -Choice Remarkable. -Polis
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
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
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.
