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Plato's Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts

By Michael Naas , Jeremy Bell

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0253016134, 9780253016133
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2013949 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
270\270
Time added
2015-09-13 16:07:05

Description

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.

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