What does the study of Plato's dialogues tell us about the modern
meaning of 'sex'? How can recent developments in the philosophy of
sex and gender help us read these ancient texts anew?"Plato and Sex
"addresses these questions for the first time. Each chapter
demonstrates how the modern reception of Plato's works o in both
mainstream and feminist philosophy and psychoanalytical theory o
has presupposed a 'natural-biological' conception of what sex might
mean. Through a critical comparison between our current
understanding of sex and Plato's notion of genos, Plato and Sex
puts this presupposition into question. With its groundbreaking
interpretations of the Republic, the Symposium and the Timaeus,
this book opens up a new approach to sex as a philosophical
concept.Including critical readings of the theories of sex and
sexuation in Freud and Lacan, and relating such theories to Plato's
writings, "Plato and Sex" both questions our assumptions about sex
and explains how those assumptions have coloured our understanding
of Plato. What results is not only an original reading of some of
the most prominent aspects of Plato's philosophy, but a new attempt
to think through the meaning of sex today.
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