Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored : Reading Plato's Phaedrus and Writing the Soul /

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Rapp begins with a question posed by poet Theodore Roethke: 'should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?'. Through her examination of Plato's Phaedrus and her insights about the place of forgetting in a life, Rapp answers Roethke's query with a resounding 'y...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rapp, Jennifer R.
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Plato. > Phaedrus.
Phaedrus (Plato)
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction. Replete and Porous: Reading the Phaedrus and Writing the Soul; 1. The Teeming Body: Making Images of the Soul through Words; 2. The Fluid Body: Madness and Displaced Discourse; 3. The Torn Body: Forgotten Logos and Unmoored Ideals; Conclusion. Ghost Ribs of Discourse beyond the Phaedrus: Radical and Domesticated Forgetting in Euripides, Zhuangzi, and Aristotle; Epilogue: Poetics as First Philosophy; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z.

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