misReading Plato
Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask
1st Edition
Published on 21. June 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-032-06268-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights and reflections on the nature of the human psyche and the human condition.
By approaching the dialogue anew, as if for the first time, the book creates new intellectual pathways by opening the conversation to a clash of ideas. The contributors offer nuanced, nontraditional readings of Plato, readings that not only analyze but also build on the dialogues by bringing them into conversation with psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and contemporary continental thought more broadly. It addresses a major gap in the literature caused by reading Plato as a metaphysician or moral or political philosopher and not, primarily, as a psychologist.
Psychologists and scholars in philosophy, psychoanalysis, Platonic thought, and other humanities-related disciplines will find this new approach to Plato refreshing, accessible, and uniquely innovative.
By approaching the dialogue anew, as if for the first time, the book creates new intellectual pathways by opening the conversation to a clash of ideas. The contributors offer nuanced, nontraditional readings of Plato, readings that not only analyze but also build on the dialogues by bringing them into conversation with psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and contemporary continental thought more broadly. It addresses a major gap in the literature caused by reading Plato as a metaphysician or moral or political philosopher and not, primarily, as a psychologist.
Psychologists and scholars in philosophy, psychoanalysis, Platonic thought, and other humanities-related disciplines will find this new approach to Plato refreshing, accessible, and uniquely innovative.
Reviews / Votes
"This collection is a fascinating set of well researched and creative essays that encourage us to rethink how we read Plato. These authors bring together expertise in ancient and continental philosophy in engaging formats-including interviews with Kearney and Sallis, and an imagined "last dialogue" of Plato, written by David Roochnik. The volume is deeply dialogical in approach."Marina Berzins McCoy, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College, USA
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional and Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-06268-6 (9781032062686)
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Matthew Clemente | Bryan Cocchiara | William Hendel
misReading Plato
Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask
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Matthew Clemente | Bryan Cocchiara | William Hendel
misReading Plato
Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask
E-Book
06/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
€45.99
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Matthew Clemente | Bryan Cocchiara | William Hendel
misReading Plato
Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask
E-Book
06/2022
1st Edition
Routledge
€45.99
Available for download
Persons
Matthew Clemente is a husband and father of five. He lives and writes in Boston, Massachusetts, where he holds teaching appointments at Boston College and Boston University. He has published seven books, most recently Eros Crucified: Death, Desire, and the Divine in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Religion, and is the assistant editor of the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion.
Bryan J. Cocchiara is currently an adjunct professor of philosophy at Brookdale Community College. He received his MA from Boston College in 2014, where he was a research fellow at the Lonergan Institute. He received his STM from Drew University in 2021, where he specialized in philosophical and theological studies in religion. He is the co-editor of misReading Nietzsche (Pickwick Publications, 2018).
William J. Hendel is a teaching fellow at Boston College, who specializes in ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and contemporary continental philosophy.
Bryan J. Cocchiara is currently an adjunct professor of philosophy at Brookdale Community College. He received his MA from Boston College in 2014, where he was a research fellow at the Lonergan Institute. He received his STM from Drew University in 2021, where he specialized in philosophical and theological studies in religion. He is the co-editor of misReading Nietzsche (Pickwick Publications, 2018).
William J. Hendel is a teaching fellow at Boston College, who specializes in ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, and contemporary continental philosophy.
Content
Part 1: Aesthetics as First Philosophy 1. The Multiplicity of Man: Beyond the Postmodern 2. Farrago: Mythos and Logos in Plato's Phaedrus 3. Plato at the Opera: The Sounds of Philosophia 4. True Lies: A Defense of the Sophists Part 2: The Ethics of Desire 5. Blinded by Desire: Self-Deception and the Possibility of the True Lie in Plato's Republic 6. Philosophical "Descent": Between the Philosopher and the Other 7. "Halt!": Socrates, Levinas, and the Divine Sign 8. Ignorance, Flattery, and Dialectic: Philosophical Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias Part 3: The Desire of Ethics 9. Being & Seeming: On Socractes' Ontological Humiliation of the Sophists 10. The Noble Taboo: Homoerotic Desire and Philosophic Inquiry 11. Division and Proto-Racialism in the Statesman 12. Hunting in Plato: On Noticing 13. The Philosophical Poet and the Poetic Philosopher 14. In Search of the Natural Beginning 15. Plato's Final Dialogue 16. Who is the Philosopher King?