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- Between Chora and the Good: Metaphor's Metaphysical Neighborhood
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
summary
Plato's chora as developed in the Timaeus is a creative matrix in which things arise and stand out in response to the lure of the Good. Chora is paired with the Good, its polar opposite; both are beyond beingand the metaphors hitherto thought to disclose the transcendent. They underlie Plato's distinction of a procreative gap between being and becoming. The chiasmus between the Good and chora makes possible their mutual participation in one another. This gap makes possible both phenomenological and cosmological interpretations of Plato. Metaphor is restricted to beings as they appear in this gap through the crossing of metaphor's terms, terms that dwell with, rather than subulate, one another. Hermeneutically, through its iswe can see something being engendered or determined by that crossing.Bigger's larger goal is to align the primacy of the Good in Plato and Christian Neoplatonism with the creator God of Genesis and the God of love in the New Testament.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxi-xxiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Chapter 1: The Place of Metaphor
- pp. 21-50
- Chapter 2: The Matrix
- pp. 51-82
- Chapter 3: Plato’s Idea Theory
- pp. 83-120
- Chapter 4: To Feel and to Know
- pp. 121-151
- Chapter 5: Deictic Metaphor
- pp. 152-181
- Chatper 6: Truth and Metaphor
- pp. 182-207
- Chapter 7: Aristotle: Poetry and the Proper
- pp. 208-221
- Chaper 8: “To the Things Themselves”
- pp. 222-236
- Chapter 10: Elementals
- pp. 263-275
- Chapter 11: Time’s Arrow
- pp. 276-297
- Chatper 12: The Originary
- pp. 298-324
- Chapter 13: Otherwise than Metaphor
- pp. 325-342
- Chapter 14: Saying Something
- pp. 343-361
- Chapter 15: The Receptacle
- pp. 362-380
- Chapter 16: À Dieu
- pp. 381-400
- Bibliography
- pp. 471-490
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823247493
Related ISBN(s)
9780823223503
MARC Record
OCLC
647876518
Pages
576
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No