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Diotima At the Barricades - French Feminists Read Plato

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Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary tradition.

List of contents










  • Preface

  • Acknowledgements

  • Introduction: The Sublime Freedom of the Ancients: de Beauvoir, Cixous, and Duras on Gender, the Erotic, and Transcendence

  • 1: The Dark Continent: Luce Irigaray, the Cave, and the History of Western Metaphysics

  • 2: Revolution in Platonic Language: The Chora in Kristeva

  • 3: Platonic Eros: Kristeva Sends Her Love to Foucault and Lacan

  • 4: Socrates, Freud, and Dionysus: The Double Life and Death of Sarah Kofman

  • Epilogue: Plato and Truth

  • Bibliography

  • Index



About the author










Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina.


Summary

Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary tradition.

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In summary, his book not only constitutes an excellent source study, but also an important read for anyone interested in enriching their understanding of the intriguing engagement these three postmodern French thinkers had with the ancient text and with their male counterparts in the defining moments of postmodern intellectual thought.

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