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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Paul Allen, 1959- author.

Series:

Classics in theory.

Classics in theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato, 428-348 v.Chr.

Feminist theory--France--History.

Feminist theory.

France--Intellectual life.

France.

Local Subjects:

Plato, 428-348 v.Chr.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-181147-5

OCLC:

936060245