Diotima at the barricades : French feminists read Plato / Paul Allen Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Paul Allen, 1959- author.

Series:

Classics in theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory--France--History.

Feminist theory.

History.

France--Intellectual life.

France.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 314 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

1 The Dark Continent Luce Irigaray, the Cave, and the History of Western Metaphysics 52

1 Theoretical and Historical Preliminaries: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Lacan 55

2 Reflective Surfaces: The Cave, the Chora, and Representation 69

3 Mind the Gap: The Representation of Representation in Republic 5 and 6 80

4 Irigaray, The Ethics of Sexual Difference, and the Symposium 103

5 Concluding Dialogues 109

2 Revolution in Platonic Language: The Chora in Kristeva 112

1 Dreaming of the Chora: Poetic Language and the Mother 115

2 From Speaking Subject to Semiotic Chora 121

3 Plato's Chora: Kristeva, Democritus, and Derrida 129

4 Chora, Khôra, Xωpa 146

5 Conclusion 159

3 Platonic Eros: Kristeva Sends Her Love to Foucault and Lacan 164

1 This Love Train Requires a Transfer 169

2 Manic Masculine Eros and the Maternal Sublime 177

3 The Third Man Theme: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Agathon in Lacan 196

4 The Erotics of Reciprocity: True Love in Plato and Foucault 201

5 Conclusion 207

4 Socrates, Freud, and Dionysus: The Double Life and Death of Sarah Kofman 213

1 The Cave and Capital: Derrida, Plato, and Marx 223

2 Dreamwork: Plato, Freud, and Irigaray 236

3 Socrate(s) bifrons: Philosophy, Irony, and Castration 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-305) and index.

ISBN:

9780199640201

0199640203

OCLC:

934038483