Plato’s Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0253016177 ISBN 13: 9780253016171

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0253016177
• ISBN 13: 9780253016171
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 261
• Redattore: Bell Jeremy, Naas Michael