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Author | : Irene Han |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Femininity (Philosophy) |
ISBN | : 9780192666253 |
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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.
Author | : Irene Han |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2023-06-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192666266 |
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Plato and the Metaphysical Feminine offers a new interpretation of the role of the female and the feminine in Plato's political dialogues—the Republic, Laws, and Timaeus—informed by Deleuze's film theory and Irigaray's psychoanalytic feminism. Irene Han reads Plato against the grain in order to close the gap between the vitalists and Plato, instead of magnifying their differences. Han explores the ambivalence that the vitalist tradition, Irigaray, and Derrida have towards Platonism. The application of Deleuzian and Irigarayan concepts to the ancient texts produces a new reading of Plato, focusing on the centrality and importance of motion, change, sensuality, and becoming to Platonic philosophy and, thereby, reinterprets Platonic philosophy in the direction of Heraclitus rather than Parmenides: as feminist rather than masculinist, and as mimetic. It therefore prioritizes Heraclitean principles of movement and flux over Form, the feminine over masculine, and materiality, feeling, or sensation over abstraction and universal essence. Han's exploration illustrates how, in Plato's thought, the feminine maps itself onto the plane of phenomena—a plane associated with vitalist themes such as motion, tactility, and change (metabolē). Platonic metaphysics is recontextualized by illustrating how Being expresses itself through processes of (feminine) becoming. With this reformulation, the resulting account of Platonic Being destabilizes any purported Platonic dualism.
Author | : Nancy Tuana |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780271040240 |
Download Feminist Interpretations of Plato Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Charlotte C. S. Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780881467437 |
Download The Female Drama Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plato's most magisterial dialogue, the Republic, takes up the question "what is justice," and its central image is an imaginary city constructed in speech designed to aid in this inquiry. In Book V of the Republic, Socrates tells his interlocutors that they have completed the "Male Drama," of the city in speech and that it is now time for them to take up the "Female." The "Female Drama" is Socrates name for the action of the central books of the Republic: V-VII. Much has been made of what this transition in the Republic signifies for political questions. The Republic is not only concerned with politics or political justice, however. Like all of the images and arguments in the Republic, the Female Drama of the city in speech has meaning both for political and individual justice, but there has been no systematic inquiry into the central books of the Republic for their meaning for individual justice. That is the ambition of this book. On the level of moral psychology, Thomas argues that while the Male Drama of Books II-IV presents images of fully formed versions of the psychological activities that come together to define justice in a human life, the Female Drama explores the modes of potentiality and becoming necessary for those psychological activities to come into being. More specifically, Books V-VII explore the three modes of potentiality necessary for the development of justice: genesis, trophe, and paideia. Book jacket.
Author | : Morag Buchan |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415921848 |
Download Women in Plato's Political Theory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Publisher description: This book examines the role of the female and the feminine in Plato's philosophy, and suggests that Plato's views on women are central to his political philosophy. Morag Buchan explores Plato's writings to argue his notions of the inferior female and the superior male. While Plato appears to allow women equal opportunity and participation of political life in the Ideal State in The Republic, his motivation rests on masculine ideals. Women in Plato's Political Theory examines issues including women's relationship to men, to reproduction, to rational thought and politics in Plato's work, and addresses more generally the problem of sexual identity in philosophy. This book is an important contribution toward a wider interpretation of Platonic philosophy.
Author | : Adriana Cavarero |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780415914475 |
Download In Spite of Plato Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This pathbreaking work pursues two interwoven themes. Firstly, it engages in a deconstruction of Ancient philosopher's texts--mainly from Plato, but also from Homer and Parmenides--in order to free four Greek female figures from the patriarchal discourse which for centuries had imprisoned them in a particular role. Secondly, it attempts to construct a symbolic female order, reinterpreting these figures from a new perspective. Building on the theory of sexual difference, Cavarero shows that death is the central category on which the whole edifice of traditional philosophy is based. By contrast, the category of birth provides the thread with which new concepts of feminist criticism can be woven together to establish a fresh way of thinking.
Author | : Charlotte Witt |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2011-10-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199740410 |
Download The Metaphysics of Gender Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The author develops the claim that gender is uniessential to social individuals. The used terms to express gender essentialism are explained, clarified and defended in the first part of the book. In the second part the author constructs an argument for the claim that gender is uniessential to social individuals.
Author | : Elena Duvergès Blair |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415526914 |
Download Plato's Dialectic on Woman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato's dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting the view of texts written more than two thousand years in the past. And yet, in spite of the recent surge of interest on woman in Plato, no comprehensive work identifying his position on the subject has yet appeared. This book considers not only the totality of Plato's texts on woman and the feminine, but also their place within both his philosophy and the historical context in which it developed. But this book is not merely a textual study situating the subject of woman philosophically and historically; it also uncovers the implications hidden in the texts and the relationships that follow from them. It draws an image of the Platonic woman as rich and full as the textual and historical information allows, offering new and sometimes unexpected results beyond the topic of woman, illuminating aspects of Plato's work that are of relevance to Platonic studies in general.
Author | : Genevieve Lloyd |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2002-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134862644 |
Download The Man of Reason Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writing and gender since 1984.
Author | : Charlotte Witt |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2010-11-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9048137837 |
Download Feminist Metaphysics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The present volume is an exciting new collection of original essays by outstanding feminist theorists including Sally Haslanger, Marilyn Frye and Linda Alcoff. Feminist Metaphysics is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a feminist perspective. The essays cover central feminist topics including: the ontology of sex and gender, persons, identity and subjectivity, and the relations among experience, ideology and reality. Many of the papers combine cutting-edge feminist theory with contemporary metaphysics and the philosophy of language. The volume is also distinctive in including articles representing both analytic and continental perspectives on metaphysics. The essays are philosophically sophisticated and are primarily intended for a professional audience of philosophers and feminist theorists.