Woman Question in Plato''s Republic

This book proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato's Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the weakness of women. Rather, it argues that the in Republic dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women into the public sphere and offers a deeply aporetic vision of women's nature and political position.

List of contents

Introduction: The Woman Question
1. The Action of the Argument
2. The Drama of Glaucon's Aporia
3. The Conflict of Thumos and Eros in the Hunt
4. Taming the Hunting Women
5. Women and Men, Exercising Naked, Together
6. Hera, Artemis, and the Political Problem of Privacy
7. Socrates' Robes of Virtue
8. The Tragedy of the Philosopher-King
9. Woman is a Political Animal
Epilogue: Aporia on the Woman Question

About the author

Mary Townsend is visiting assistant professor in the department of classical studies at Loyola University, New Orleans.

Summary

This book proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato's Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the weakness of women. Rather, it argues that the in Republic dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women into the public sphere and offers a deeply aporetic vision of women’s nature and political position.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Townsend, Townsend Mary
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781498542715
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4271-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, ancient philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500