Plato's Animals - Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts (Hardcover, annotated edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Continental Thought
Release date:	May 2015
First published:	2015
Editors:	Jeremy Bell • Michael Naas
Contributors:	Christopher Long • Claudia Baracchi • Sara Brill • S Montgomery Ewegen • Francisco Gonz alez • H.Peter Steeves • Drew A. Hyland • David Farrell Krell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	270
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-01613-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > Phenomenology & Existentialism
LSN:	0-253-01613-4
Barcode:	9780253016133

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