MisReading Plato: Continental and Psychoanalytic Glimpses Beyond the Mask

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• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Limited
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Series: Psychology and the Other
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights and reflections on the nature of the human psyche and the human condition.

By approaching the dialogue anew, as if for the first time, the book creates new intellectual pathways by opening the conversation to a clash of ideas. The contributors offer nuanced, nontraditional readings of Plato, readings that not only analyze but also build on the dialogues by bringing them into conversation with psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and contemporary continental thought more broadly. It addresses a major gap in the literature caused by reading Plato as a metaphysician or moral or political philosopher and not, primarily, as a psychologist.

Psychologists and scholars in philosophy, psychoanalysis, Platonic thought, and other humanities-related disciplines will find this new approach to Plato refreshing, accessible, and uniquely innovative.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
PART I Aesthetics as First Philosophy
1 The Multiplicity of Man: Beyond the Postmodern
2 Farrago: Mythos and Logos in Plato’s Phaedrus
3 Plato at the Opera: The Sounds of Philosophia
4 True Lies: A Defense of the Sophists
PART II The Ethics of Desire
5 Blinded by Desire: Self-Deception and the Possibility
of the True Lie in Plato’s Republic
6 Philosophical “Descent”: Between the Philosopher and the Other
7 “Halt!”: Socrates, Levinas, and the Divine Sign
8 Ignorance, Flattery, and Dialectic: Philosophical Rhetoric in Plato’s Gorgias
PART III The Desire of Ethics
9 Being and Seeming: On Socrates’ Ontological
Humiliation of the Sophists
10 The Noble Taboo: Homoerotic Desire and Philosophic Inquiry
11 Division and Proto-Racialism in the Statesman
12 Hunting in Plato: On Noticing
PART IV Aesthetics as Final Philosophy
13 The Philosophical Poet and the Poetic Philosopher
14 In Search of the Natural Beginning
15 Plato’s Final Dialogue
16 Who Is the Philosopher King?
Index