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Author Han, Irene, author

Title Plato and the metaphysical feminine : one hundred and one nights / Irene Han
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages)
Series Classics in Theory Series
Classics in theory.
Contents Introduction -- I.1 Enjeux (Stakes) -- I.2 La touche française (The French Touch) -- I.3 Summary -- 1: Goodbye to Language: The Chōra in the Timaeus -- 1.1 Space -- 1.2 hysteron proteron (Later Earlier) -- 1.3 Genesis -- 1.4 Eden -- 2: La Nouvelle Vague: The Liquid Feminine in Republic Book V -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 meta andreion drama (After the Manly Drama) -- 2.3 First Wave -- 2.4 Second Wave -- 2.5 Third Wave -- 2.6 Couvade -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3: In the Realm of the Senses: Sensual Abandon in Republic Book VIII -- 3.1 The Time-Image -- 3.2 Muses -- 3.3 The Beginning of the End -- 3.4 The End of the Beginning -- 4: Untitled: Material Expressions in the Laws Book III -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Brise Marine -- 4.3 Window Water Baby Moving -- 4.4 The Red Circle -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Conclusion
Summary This volume offers a new interpretation of the role of the female and the feminine in Plato's political dialogues. Irene Han provides a reading of Plato's philosophy informed by contemporary theory to demonstrate the centrality of processes of becoming for Platonic accounts of Being
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Plato -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Plato fast
Subject Femininity (Philosophy)
History of philosophy, philosophical traditions.
Philosophy.
Femininity (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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