Diotima at the barricades : French feminists read Plato / / Paul Allen Miller [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Miller Paul Allen <1959->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 305.420944
• Soggetto topico: Feminist theory - France - History
• Soggetto geografico: France Intellectual life
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Classificazione: 20.10
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: the sublime freedom of the ancients: Beauvoir, Cixous, and Duras on gender, the erotic, and transcendence : Antiquity and the acte gratuit in Simone de Beauvoir -- Orpheus in the cave: Hélène Cixous beyond transcendence -- Marguerite Duras: writing and the feminine -- Conclusion. 1 The dark continent: Luce Irigaray, The Cave, and the history of Western metaphysics : Theoretical and historical preliminaries: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Lacan -- Reflective surfaces: The Cave, the Chora, and representation -- Mind the gap: the representation of presentation in Republic 5 and 6 -- Irigaray, The Ethics of Sexual Difference, and the Symposium -- Concluding dialogues. 2 Revolution in platonic language: The Chora in Kristeva : Dreaming of the Chora: poetic language and the mother -- From speaking subject to semiotic Chora -- Plato's Chora: Kristeva, Democritus, and Derrida -- Chora, Khôra, [Chora] -- Conclusion. 3 Platonic Eros: Kristeva sends her love to Foucault and Lacan : This love train requires a transfer -- Manic masculine Eros and the maternal sublime -- The third man theme: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Agathon in Lacan -- THe erotics of reciprocity: true love in Plato and Faucault -- Conclusion. 4 Socrates, Freud, and Dionysus: the double life and death of Sarah Kofman : The Cave and Capital: Derrida, Plato, and Marx -- Dreamwork: Plato, Freud, and Irigaray -- Socrate(s) bifrons: philosophy, irony, and castration. Epilogue: Plato and truth. Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: '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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Diotima at the barricades
• ISBN: 0-19-181147-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157834303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Classics in theory.