Michael Naas

Plato and the Invention of Life (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The question of life, Michael Naas argues, though rarely foregrounded by Plato, runs through and structures his thought. By characterizing being in terms of life, Plato in many of his later dialogues, including the Statesman, begins to discover-or, better, to invent-a notion of true or real life that would be opposed to all merely biological or animal life, a form of life that would be more valuable than everything we call life and every life that can actually be lived.This emphasis on life in the Platonic dialogues illuminates the structural relationship between many of Plato s most time-honored distinctions, such as being and becoming, soul and body. At the same time, it helps to explain the enormous power and authority that Plato s thought has exercised, for good or ill, over our entire philosophical and religious tradition.Lucid yet sophisticated, Naas s account offers a fundamental rereading of what the concept of life entails, one that inflects a range of contemporary conversations, from biopolitics, to the new materialisms, to the place of the human within the living world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823279708
• Artikelnr.: 72414255

Autorenporträt

Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage (2022), Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America (2022), Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband (2020), Plato and the Invention of Life (2018), The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar (2015), Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (2012), Derrida From Now On (2008), Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction (2003), and Turning: From Persuasion to Philosophy (1994). He is co-translator of a number of books by Jacques Derrida, including Life Death (2020), and is a member of the Derrida Seminars Editorial Team.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Philosophy's Gigantomachia over Life and Being
1. The Lifelines of the Statesman
2. Life and Spontaneity
3. The Shepherd and the Weaver: A Foucauldian Fable
4. The Measure of Life and Logos
5. Fruits of the Poisonous Tree: Plato and Alcidamas on the Evils of
Writing
6. The Life of Law and the Law of Life
7. Plato and the Invention of Life Itself
Conclusion: Life on the Line
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index