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Plato and the Invention of Life /
The question of life, Michael Naas argues, though rarely foregrounded by Plato, runs through and structures his thought. By characterizing being in terms of life, Plato in many of his later dialogues, including the Statesman, begins to discover-or, better, to invent-a notion of true or real life tha...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Philosophy's Gigantomachia over Life and Being
- chapter 1. The Lifelines of the Statesman
- chapter 2. Life and Spontaneity
- chapter 3. The Shepherd and the Weaver: A Foucauldian Fable
- chapter 4. The Mea sure of Life and Logos
- chapter 5. Fruits of the Poisonous Tree: Plato and Alcidamas on the Evils of Writing
- chapter 6. The Life of Law and the Law of Life
- chapter 7. Plato and the Invention of Life Itself
- Conclusion: Life on the Line
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index