Plato's animals : gadflies, horses, swans, and other philosophical beasts /
Plato's animals : gadflies, horses, swans, and other philosophical beasts /
edited by Jeremy Bell and Michael Naas.
- Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
- Studies in Continental Thought .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Animal of Fable and Myth -- Socrates as muōps and narkē -- The Socratic Animal as Truth-Teller and Provocateur -- The Political Animal -- The (En)gendered Animal -- The Philosophical Animal -- Animals and the Afterlife.
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.
9780253016201
Plato --
Philosophy-Ancient
Animals (Philosophy)
Electronic Books.
B398 / .P538 2015
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Animal of Fable and Myth -- Socrates as muōps and narkē -- The Socratic Animal as Truth-Teller and Provocateur -- The Political Animal -- The (En)gendered Animal -- The Philosophical Animal -- Animals and the Afterlife.
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.
9780253016201
Plato --
Philosophy-Ancient
Animals (Philosophy)
Electronic Books.
B398 / .P538 2015