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- Plato's Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: Studies in Continental Thought
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Part I. The Animal of Fable and Myth
- Part II. Socrates as muōps and narkē
- Part III. The Socratic Animal as Truth-Teller and Provocateur
- 6. The Dog on the Fly
- pp. 96-112
- Part IV. The Political Animal
- Part V. The (En)gendered Animal
- Part VI. The Philosophical Animal
- Part VII. Animals and the Afterlife
- List of Contributors
- pp. 247-248
- Plato’s Animals Index
- pp. 249-256
- Name and Subject Index
- pp. 257-261
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253016201
Related ISBN(s)
9780253016133, 9780253016171
MARC Record
OCLC
907092951
Pages
270
Launched on MUSE
2015-04-10
Language
English
Open Access
No