Paul Allen Miller

Diotima at the Barricades

French Feminists Read Plato

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780199640218
• ISBN-10: 0199640211
• Artikelnr.: 49560555

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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