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Plato and the Invention of Life / Michael Naas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823279678
  • 9780823279708
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 184 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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 that would be opposed to all merely biological or animal life, a form of life that would be more valuable than everything we call life and every life that can actually be lived.This emphasis on life in the Platonic dialogues illuminates the structural relationship between many of Plato's most time-honored distinctions, such as being and becoming, soul and body. At the same time, it helps to explain the enormous power and authority that Plato's thought has exercised, for good or ill, over our entire philosophical and religious tradition.Lucid yet sophisticated, Naas's account offers a fundamental rereading of what the concept of life entails, one that inflects a range of contemporary conversations, from biopolitics, to the new materialisms, to the place of the human within the living world.
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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

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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 that would be opposed to all merely biological or animal life, a form of life that would be more valuable than everything we call life and every life that can actually be lived.This emphasis on life in the Platonic dialogues illuminates the structural relationship between many of Plato's most time-honored distinctions, such as being and becoming, soul and body. At the same time, it helps to explain the enormous power and authority that Plato's thought has exercised, for good or ill, over our entire philosophical and religious tradition.Lucid yet sophisticated, Naas's account offers a fundamental rereading of what the concept of life entails, one that inflects a range of contemporary conversations, from biopolitics, to the new materialisms, to the place of the human within the living world.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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