Plato's Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts (Studies in Continental Thought)

Plato's Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts (Studies in Continental Thought)

by David Farrell Krell (Author), Michael Naas (Author), Christopher Long (Author), Claudia Baracchi (Author), David Farrell Krell (Author), Francisco Gonzalez (Author), Michael Naas (Author), Christopher Long (Author), Claudia Baracchi (Author), Michael Naas (Author), S. Montgomery Ewegen (Author), H. Peter Steeves (Author), Jeremy Bell (Author), Thomas Thorp (Author), Sara Brill (Author), Holly Moore (Author), Drew A. Hyland (Author), Heidi Northwood (Author), Marina McCoy (Author)

Synopsis

Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 270
Edition: Annotated
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 01 May 2015

ISBN 10: 0253016134
ISBN 13: 9780253016133

Media Reviews
Recommended. * Choice *
Plato's Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Remarkable.33.2 2016 * Polis *
Author Bio

Jeremy Bell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University.

Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is author of Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media and Derrida From Now On.