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misReading Plato - Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask (Paperback): Matthew Clemente, Bryan Cocchiara,... misReading Plato - Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask (Paperback)
Matthew Clemente, Bryan Cocchiara, William Hendel
R1,001 Discovery Miles 10 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Offers nuanced, non-traditional readings of Plato * Builds upon the dialogues by bringing them into conversation with psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and contemporary Continental thought more broadly * Addresses a major gap in the literature, one which has been perpetuated down through the centuries; a gap caused by reading Plato as a metaphysician or moral or political philosopher and not, primarily, as a psychologist, a doctor of the human soul

misReading Plato - Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask (Hardcover): Matthew Clemente, Bryan Cocchiara,... misReading Plato - Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask (Hardcover)
Matthew Clemente, Bryan Cocchiara, William Hendel
R3,758 Discovery Miles 37 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Offers nuanced, non-traditional readings of Plato * Builds upon the dialogues by bringing them into conversation with psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and contemporary Continental thought more broadly * Addresses a major gap in the literature, one which has been perpetuated down through the centuries; a gap caused by reading Plato as a metaphysician or moral or political philosopher and not, primarily, as a psychologist, a doctor of the human soul

The Ancient Emotion of Disgust (Hardcover): Donald Lateiner, Dimos Spatharas The Ancient Emotion of Disgust (Hardcover)
Donald Lateiner, Dimos Spatharas
R3,095 Discovery Miles 30 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship. The emotions of the classical world can be plumbed to provide a valuable heuristic tool. Emotions can help us understand key issues of ancient ethics, ideological assumptions, and normative behaviors, but, more frequently than not, classical scholars have turned their attention to "social emotions" requiring practical decisions and ethical judgments in public and private gatherings. The emotion of disgust has been unwarrantedly neglected, even though it figures saliently in many literary genres, such as iambic poetry and comedy, historiography, and even tragedy and philosophy. This collection of seventeen essays by fifteen authors features the emotion of disgust as one cutting edge of the study of Greek and Roman antiquity. Individual contributions explore a wide range of topics. These include the semantics of the emotion both in Greek and Latin literature, its social uses as a means of marginalizing individuals or groups of individuals, such as politicians judged deviant or witches, its role in determining aesthetic judgments, and its potentialities as an elicitor of aesthetic pleasure. The papers also discuss the vocabulary and uses of disgust in life (Galli, actors, witches, homosexuals) and in many literary genres: ancient theater, oratory, satire, poetry, medicine, historiography, Hellenistic didactic and fable, and the Roman novel. The Introduction addresses key methodological issues concerning the nature of the emotion, its cognitive structure, and modern approaches to it. It also outlines the differences between ancient and modern disgust and emphasizes the appropriateness of "projective or second-level disgust" (vilification) as a means of marginalizing unwanted types of behavior and stigmatizing morally condemnable categories of individuals. The volume is addressed first to scholars who work in the field of classics, but, since texts involving disgust also exhibit significant cultural variation, the essays will attract the attention of scholars who work in a wide spectrum of disciplines, including history, social psychology, philosophy, anthropology, comparative literature, and cross-cultural studies.

Republic (Paperback): Plato Republic (Paperback)
Plato
R183 Discovery Miles 1 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's The Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.

Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus (Paperback): Thomas Figueira, Carmen Soares Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus (Paperback)
Thomas Figueira, Carmen Soares
R1,272 Discovery Miles 12 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Herodotus is the epochal authority who inaugurated the European and Western consciousness of collective identity, whether in an awareness of other societies and of the nature of cultural variation itself or in the fashioning of Greek self-awareness - and necessarily that of later civilizations in?uenced by the ancient Greeks - which was perpetually in dialogue and tension with other ways of living in groups. In this book, 14 contributors explore ethnicity - the very self-understanding of belonging to a separate body of human beings - and how it evolves and consolidates (or ethnogenesis). This inquiry is focussed through the lens of Herodotus as our earliest master of ethnography, in this instance not only as the stylized portrayal of other societies, but also as an exegesis on how ethnocultural di?erentiation may a?ect the lives, and even the very existence, of one's own people. Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus is one facet of a project that intends to bring Portuguese and English-speaking scholars of antiquity into closer cooperation. It has united a cross-section of North American classicists with a distinguished cohort of Portuguese and Brazilian experts on Greek literature and history writing in English.

Plato's Republic (Hardcover): A Badiou Plato's Republic (Hardcover)
A Badiou
R1,288 Discovery Miles 12 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato's text and restore its universality. Rather than producing yet another critical commentary, he has retranslated the work from the original Greek and, by making various changes, adapted it for our times. In this innovative reimagining of a classic text, Badiou has removed all references specific to ancient Greek society, from the endless exchanges about the moral courage of poets to those political considerations that were only of interest to the aristocratic elite. On the other hand, Badiou has expanded the range of cultural references: here philosophy is firing on all cylinders, and Socrates and his companions are joined by Beckett, Pessoa, Freud and Hegel. They demonstrate the enduring nature of true philosophy, always ready to move with the times. Moreover, Badiou the dramatist has made the Socratic dialogue a true oratorial contest: in his version of the Republic, the interlocutors have more in mind than merely agreeing with the Master. They stand up to him, put him on the spot and thereby show thought in motion. Through this work of writing, scholarship and philosophy, we are able, for the first time, to read a version of Plato's text which is alive, stimulating and directly relevant to our world today.

Politics (Hardcover): Aristotle Politics (Hardcover)
Aristotle
R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

EVERY STATE is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always act in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

Fashion | Sense - On Philosophy and Fashion (Hardcover): Gwenda-lin Grewal Fashion | Sense - On Philosophy and Fashion (Hardcover)
Gwenda-lin Grewal
R2,327 Discovery Miles 23 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fashion | Sense is designed to explode "fashion," and with it, the stigma in philosophy against fashion's superficiality. Fashion appears to be altogether differently occupied, disingenuous and insubstantial, even sophistic in its pretense to peddle surfaces as if they were something deep. But is fashion's apparent beguilement more philosophical than it seems? And is philosophy's longing for exposed depth concealing fashion in its anti-fashion stance? Using primarily ancient Greek texts, peppered with allusions to their echoes across the history of philosophy and contemporary fashion and pop culture, Gwenda-lin Grewal not only examines the rift between fashion and philosophy, but also challenges the claim that fashion is modern. Indeed, fashion's quarrel with philosophy may be at least as ancient as that infamous quarrel between philosophy and poetry alluded to in Plato's Republic. And the quest for fashion's origins, as if a quest for a neutrally-outfitted self, stripped of the self-awareness that comes with thinking, prompts questions about human agency and our immersion in time. The touch of reality's fabric bristles in our relationship to our looks, not simply through the structure of clothes but in the plot of our wearing them. Meanwhile, the fashion of our words sharpens our meaning like a cutting silhouette. Grewal's own writing is playfully and daringly self-conscious, aware of its style and the entrapment it arouses from the very first line. The reactions provoked by fashion's flair, not only among the philosophical set but also among those who would never deck themselves out in the title, "philosopher," show it forth as perhaps philosophy's most important and underestimated doppelganger.

Aristotle's Metaphysics (Hardcover): Aristotle Aristotle's Metaphysics (Hardcover)
Aristotle
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Clearchus of Soli - Text, Translation, and Discussion (Hardcover): Robert Mayhew, David C. Mirhady, Tiziano Dorandi, Stephen... Clearchus of Soli - Text, Translation, and Discussion (Hardcover)
Robert Mayhew, David C. Mirhady, Tiziano Dorandi, Stephen White
R3,942 Discovery Miles 39 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Offers the latest research on this topic.

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (Paperback): Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Pauliina Remes The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (Paperback)
Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Pauliina Remes
R1,436 Discovery Miles 14 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the most important issues and developments in one of the fastest growing areas of research in ancient philosophy. An international team of scholars situates and re-evaluates Neoplatonism within the history of ancient philosophy and thought, and explores its influence on philosophical and religious schools worldwide. Over thirty chapters are divided into seven clear parts: (Re)sources, instruction and interaction Methods and Styles of Exegesis Metaphysics and Metaphysical Perspectives Language, Knowledge, Soul, and Self Nature: Physics, Medicine and Biology Ethics, Political Theory and Aesthetics The legacy of Neoplatonism. The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism is a major reference source for all students and scholars in Neoplatonism and ancient philosophy, as well as researchers in the philosophy of science, ethics, aesthetics and religion.

The Beginning of Knowledge (Hardcover): Hans Georg Gadamer The Beginning of Knowledge (Hardcover)
Hans Georg Gadamer
R1,204 Discovery Miles 12 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In The Beginning of Knowledge, Gadamer reminds us that philosophy for the Greeks was not just a question of metaphysics and epistemology but encompassed cosmology, physics, mathematics, medicine, and the entire reach of theoretical curiosity and intellectual mastery. Whereas his book The Beginning of Philosophy dealt with the inception of philosophical inquiry, this new book brings together nearly all of GadamerAEs previously published but never translated essays on the Presocratics. Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological investigation of the Heraclitus fragments (1974 and 1990), he then moves on to a discussion of the Greek Atomists (1935) and the Presocratic cosmologists (1964). In the last two essays (1978 and 1994/95), Gadamer elaborates on the profound debt that modern scientific thinking owes to the Greek philosophical tradition

Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts - Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial... Plato's Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts - Cosmic Monotheism and Terrestrial Polytheism in the Primordial History (Hardcover)
Russell E. Gmirkin
R3,905 Discovery Miles 39 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first to systematically compare biblical, Ancient Near Eastern and Greek creation accounts and to show that Genesis 1-3 is heavily indebted to Plato's Timaeus and other cosmogonies by Greek natural philosophers.

Plato's Literary Garden - How to Read a Platonic Dialogue (Hardcover): Kenneth M. Sayre Plato's Literary Garden - How to Read a Platonic Dialogue (Hardcover)
Kenneth M. Sayre
R3,516 Discovery Miles 35 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work argues that Plato did not intend his written dialogues to serve as repositories of philosophical doctrine, but instead composed them as teaching instruments. The study is organised according to the progression of a horticultural metaphor adopted from the Phaedrus.

The Complete Works of Plato, Volume II (Hardcover): Plato The Complete Works of Plato, Volume II (Hardcover)
Plato
R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Collected here in two volumes are the complete works of Plato, in the classic translation by Benjamin Jowett. One of the most influential thinkers of Ancient Greece or any other era, Plato formed the basis of Western philosophy. Mostly written in the form of dialogues with his teacher Socrates as the protagonist, his works address themes as varied as metaphysics, psychology, pedagogy, politics, and ethics. Despite the weighty subject matter, Plato's writing remains accessible to the general reader, and infused with wit and humor. Why is Plato worth reading today? His dialogues are vitally concerned with how we should live. His arguments always have an engagement with life. He combines the logical rigor of a philosopher with the imagination and artistry of a poet. In short, despite the passage of thousands of years, Plato remains relevant and compelling.

Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought - Presocratic and Hippocratic Approaches (Hardcover): Stephanie Holton Sleep and Dreams in Early Greek Thought - Presocratic and Hippocratic Approaches (Hardcover)
Stephanie Holton
R3,888 Discovery Miles 38 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It explores how the Presocratic natural philosophers and early Hippocratic medical writers developed theories which drew from wider investigations into physiology and psychology, the natural world and the self, while also engaging with wider literary depictions and established cultural beliefs. attention is devoted from the outset to sleep and dreams in Homer and the mythic tradition, as well as to depictions across lyric, drama and historiography.

Foundations for a Humanitarian Economy - Re-thinking Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy (Hardcover): William D. Bishop Foundations for a Humanitarian Economy - Re-thinking Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy (Hardcover)
William D. Bishop
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The modern global economy and discipline of economics place mathematical calculation above human concern. However, a re-reading of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy can positively highlight the contrast in values and spirit of the early medieval European world with our own scientific age. This book discusses the historical and cultural contexts that influenced Boethius' writing and explores how Consolation offers a radically different understanding of economic concepts: wealth from inner happiness and virtues, poverty from hoarding outer possessions, self-sufficiency in the greater whole, enlightenment through misfortune, and development as fruition from the Good. These economic considerations resonate with a range of heterodox economic perspectives, such as Ecological and Buddhist Economics. The fundamental revaluations gained through Boethius pose a critique of mainstream neoclassical and neoliberal economics: to consumerism, avarice, growth and technology fetishism, and market rationality. These economic foundations resonate into a time when global crises raise the question of fundamental human priorities, offering alternatives to an ever-expanding industrial market economy designed for profit, and helping to avoid irrevocable socio-ecological disasters. The issues raised and questioned in this book will be of significant interest to readers with concern for pluralist approaches to economics, philosophy, classics, ancient history and theology.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics (Hardcover): Christopher Bobonich The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics (Hardcover)
Christopher Bobonich
R2,995 Discovery Miles 29 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The field of ancient Greek ethics is increasingly emerging as a major branch of philosophical enquiry, and students and scholars of ancient philosophy will find this Companion to be a rich and invaluable guide to the themes and movements which characterised the discipline from the Pre-Socratics to the Neo-Platonists. Several chapters are dedicated to the central figures of Plato and Aristotle, and others explore the ethical thought of the Stoics, the Epicureans, the Skeptics, and Plotinus. Further chapters examine important themes that cut across these schools, including virtue and happiness, friendship, elitism, impartiality, and the relationship between ancient eudaimonism and modern morality. Written by leading scholars and drawing on cutting-edge research to illuminate the questions of ancient ethics, the book will provide students and specialists with an indispensable critical overview of the full range of ancient Greek ethics.

Letters from a Stoic (Paperback, Reissue): Lucius Annaeus Seneca Letters from a Stoic (Paperback, Reissue)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca; Translated by Robin Campbell 1
R296 R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Save R55 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Ranging from lively epistles to serious essays, these 124 letters selected from Epistulae Morales and Lucilium espouse the philosophy of Stoicism. This volume includes Tacitus's account of Seneca's death.

Nietzsche and Classical Greek Philosophy - Beautiful and Diseased (Hardcover): Daw-Nay N. R. Evans Nietzsche and Classical Greek Philosophy - Beautiful and Diseased (Hardcover)
Daw-Nay N. R. Evans
R2,064 Discovery Miles 20 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Nietzsche and Classical Greek Philosophy: Beautiful and Diseased explains Friedrich Nietzsche's ambivalence toward Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Daw-Nay N. R. Evans Jr. argues that Nietzsche's relationship to his classical Greek predecessors is more subtle and systematic than previously believed. He contends that Nietzsche's seemingly personal attacks on his philosophical rivals hide philosophically sophisticated disputes that deserve greater attention. Evans demonstrates how Nietzsche's encounters with Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle reveal the philosophical influence they exercised on Nietzsche's thought and the philosophical problems that he sought to address through those encounters. Having illustrated Nietzsche's ambivalence Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, Evans draws on Nietzsche's admiration for Heraclitus as a counterpoint to Plato to suggest that the classical Greek philosophers are just as important to Nietzsche's thought as their pre-Socratic precursors. This book will appeal to those interested in continental philosophy, ancient philosophy, and German studies.

Parmenides (Hardcover): Plato Parmenides (Hardcover)
Plato
R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Plato on the Unity of the Virtues - A Dialectic Reading (Hardcover): Rod Jenks Plato on the Unity of the Virtues - A Dialectic Reading (Hardcover)
Rod Jenks
R2,012 Discovery Miles 20 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Plato in the Protagoras suggests that the virtues are profoundly unified yet also distinct. In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues: A Dialectic Reading, Rod Jenks argues that the way in which they are both one and many is finally ineffable. He shows how, elsewhere in the corpus, Plato countenances ineffability. Jenks's interpretation of Protagoras accounts for the otherwise-inexplicable inability of both Socrates and Protagoras to identify the bone of contention between them. Not only can the thesis not be argued for; it can't even be properly stated. Jenks shows how the long exegesis on the Simonides poem is philosophically relevant. Further, he shows that both the parts-of-the-face analogy and the gold analogy are inadequate, arguing that Plato intends them to be so. Jenks explains why the unity thesis is supported by-what most scholars agree are-terrible arguments: the virtues are both one and many. He explains why, in spite of the unity claim being profoundly elusive, Plato believes it to be crucial that we come to appreciate how virtue, which really does have parts, can also be profoundly one.

Plato's Socrates on Socrates - Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy (Paperback): Anne-Marie... Plato's Socrates on Socrates - Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy (Paperback)
Anne-Marie Schultz
R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Plato's Socrates on Socrates: Socratic Self-Disclosure and the Public Practice of Philosophy, Anne-Marie Schultz analyzes the philosophical and political implications of Plato's presentation of Socrates' self-disclosive speech in four dialogues: Theaetetus, Symposium, Apology, and Phaedo. Schultz argues that these moments of Socratic self-disclosure show that Plato's presentation of "Socrates the narrator" is much more pervasive than the secondary literature typically acknowledges. Despite the pervasive appearance of a Socrates who describes his own experience throughout the dialogues, Socratic autobiographical self-disclosure has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Plato's use of narrative, particularly his trope of "Socrates the narrator," is often subsumed into discussions of the dramatic nature of the dialogues more generally rather than studied in its own right. Schultz shows how these carefully crafted narrative remarks add to the richness and profundity of the Platonic texts on multiple levels. To illustrate how these embedded Socratic narratives contribute to the portrait of Socrates as a public philosopher in Plato's dialogues, the author also examines Socratic self-disclosive practices in the works of bell hooks, Kathy Khang, and Ta-Neishi Coates, and even practices the art of Socratic self-disclosure herself.

Reason, Rhetoric, and the Philosophical Life in Plato's Phaedrus (Paperback): Tiago Lier Reason, Rhetoric, and the Philosophical Life in Plato's Phaedrus (Paperback)
Tiago Lier
R967 Discovery Miles 9 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Plato is a well-known critic of rhetoric, but in the Phaedrus, he defends the art of rhetoric, arguing that it can be perfected with the aid of philosophy. In Reason, Rhetoric, and the Philosophical Life in Plato's Phaedrus, Tiago Lier provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of this important dialogue. He argues that Plato's defense of rhetoric is based on philosophy's ethical nature, and that philosophy is a way of life rather than a body of knowledge. For Plato, an essential element of both rhetoric and the philosophical life is that every use of speech, whether to persuade or to learn, depends upon the psychology of the speaker and the audience. Lier shows how Socrates develops a dynamic account of this psychology over the course of the dialogue in order to help Phaedrus understand how he is personally engaged in, and shaped by, every act of communication. Only when we grasp the tension between eros and logos will we discover the limitations of the art of rhetoric and that rhetoric alone cannot show us what we truly desire. Instead, Lier concludes, the greatest power of speech is to reveal to ourselves our own desires and understanding of our place in the world. This continual self-reflection is the philosophical life around which Socrates and Plato fashion their distinctive forms of rhetoric. The insights developed in this book will be of particular relevance to students and scholars of ancient philosophy, classics, and rhetorical theory, but it will also be of interest to those working in political science, literary studies, and communication studies.

Olympiodorus: On Plato First Alcibiades 10-28 (Hardcover): Michael Griffin Olympiodorus: On Plato First Alcibiades 10-28 (Hardcover)
Michael Griffin
R3,942 Discovery Miles 39 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Olympiodorus (AD c. 500-570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, delivered 28 lectures as an introduction to Plato. This volume translates lectures 10-28, following from the first nine lectures and a biography of the philosopher published in translation in a companion volume, Olympiodorus: Life of Plato and On Plato First Alcibiades 1-9 (Bloomsbury, 2014). For us, these lectures can serve as an accessible introduction to late Neoplatonism. Olympiodorus locates the First Alcibiades at the start of the curriculum on Plato, because it is about self-knowledge. His pupils are beginners, able to approach the hierarchy of philosophical virtues, like the aristocratic playboy Alcibiades. Alcibiades needs to know himself, at least as an individual with particular actions, before he can reach the virtues of mere civic interaction. As Olympiodorus addresses mainly Christian students, he tells them that the different words they use are often symbols of truths shared between their faiths.

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