Plato's Animals
Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts
Jeremy Bell editor Michael Naas editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Published:1st May '15
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- Paperback£24.99(9780253016171)
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.
Remarkable.33.2 2016
* Polis *Plato's Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought.
* Notre Dame Philosophical RevieISBN: 9780253016133
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 517g
270 pages