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Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the
first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and
hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern western
culture is a particularly visual one, we can overlook the
significance of the auditory which was so central to the Greeks.
The fifteen chapters of this edited volume explore "hearing" as
being philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures
in ancient Greek philosophy. Through close analysis of the
philosophy of such figures as Homer, Heraclitus, Pythagoreans,
Sophocles, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hearing, Sound,
and Auditory in Ancient Greece presents new and unique research
from philosophers and classicists that aims to redirect us to the
ways in which sound, hearing, listening, voice, and even silence
shaped and reflected the worldview of ancient Greece.
Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the
first wide-ranging philosophical study of the role of sound and
hearing in the ancient Greek world. Because our modern western
culture is a particularly visual one, we can overlook the
significance of the auditory which was so central to the Greeks.
The fifteen chapters of this edited volume explore "hearing" as
being philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures
in ancient Greek philosophy. Through close analysis of the
philosophy of such figures as Homer, Heraclitus, Pythagoreans,
Sophocles, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hearing, Sound,
and Auditory in Ancient Greece presents new and unique research
from philosophers and classicists that aims to redirect us to the
ways in which sound, hearing, listening, voice, and even silence
shaped and reflected the worldview of ancient Greece.
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Plato's Animals - Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Jeremy Bell, Michael Naas; Contributions by Christopher Long, Claudia Baracchi, Sara Brill, …
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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.
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.
Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and
sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of
truth and appearance in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the
work of Jean Baudrillard, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and JeanLuc
Nancy, sixteen authors study how the real reasserts itself in an
age of every more fragmented media, and how art and literature give
us access to forms of truth that elude philosophy. How does
representation grant us access to the place once occupied by the
subject? Is political life possible? Can plural thinking be
retrieved? Will metaphor and simulation give us ways of being in an
evanescent world? The volume engages discussions of French and
Continental philosophy, post-structuralism, deconstruction,
simulacra, aesthetics, existentialism, and media theory.
Drew A. Hyland, one of Continental philosophy's keenest
interpreters of Plato, takes up the question of beauty in three
Platonic dialogues, the Hippias Major, Symposium, and Phaedrus.
What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, and
Hyland's close readings show that Plato ultimately gives up on the
possibility of a definition. Plato's failure, however, tells us
something important about beauty that it cannot be reduced to
logos. Exploring questions surrounding love, memory, and ideal
form, Hyland draws out the connections between beauty, the
possibility of philosophy, and philosophical living. This new
reading of Plato provides a serious investigation into the meaning
of beauty and places it at the very heart of philosophy."
Martin Heidegger s sustained reflection on Greek thought has
been increasingly recognized as a decisive feature of his own
philosophical development. At the same time, this important
philosophical meeting has generated considerable controversy and
disagreement concerning the radical originality of Heidegger s view
of the Greeks and their place in his groundbreaking thinking. In
Heidegger and the Greeks, an international group of distinguished
philosophers sheds light on the issues raised by Heidegger s
encounter and engagement with the Greeks. The careful and nuanced
essays brought together here shed light on how core philosophical
concepts such as phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, and
ethics are understood today. For readers at all levels, this volume
is an invitation to continue the important dialogue with Greek
thinking that was started and stimulated by Heidegger.
Contributors are Claudia Baracchi, Walter A. Brogan, Gunter
Figal, Gregory Fried, Francisco J. Gonzalez, Drew A. Hyland, John
Panteleimon Manoussakis, William J. Richardson, John Sallis, Dennis
J. Schmidt, and Peter Warnek."
The "theory of forms" usually attributed to Plato is one of the
most famous of philosophical theories, yet it has engendered such
controversy in the literature on Plato that scholars even debate
whether or not such a theory exists in his texts. Plato's Forms:
Varieties of Interpretation is an ambitious work that brings
together, in a single volume, widely divergent approaches to the
topic of the forms in Plato's dialogues. With contributions rooted
in both Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, the book
illustrates the contentious role the forms have played in Platonic
scholarship and suggests new approaches to a central problem of
Plato studies.
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