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Plato''s Animals - Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts

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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' Introduction: Plato's MenageriePart 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 KrellPart II. Socrates as muops and narke 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 ThorpPart 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 SteevesPart 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 LongPart 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 BrillPart 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. HylandPart 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. GonzalezList of Contributors Plato's Animals Index Name and Subject Index...

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Authors Jeremy (EDT)/ Naas Bell, Jeremy Naas Bell
Assisted by Jeremy Bell (Editor), Jeremy Randolph Bell (Editor), Michael Naas (Editor), Thomas Patrick Oates (Editor)
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.05.2015
 
EAN 9780253016133
ISBN 978-0-253-01613-3
No. of pages 270
Dimensions 127 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
Series Studies in Continental Thought
Studies in Continental Thought
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Subjects Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day

Antike Philosophie, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Essays

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