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Book SynopsisRapp offers a recast interpretation of Plato through a focus upon the transformative processes required by his texts in which spaces of ordinary oblivion put a reader at risk. The decomposing and generative effects of these oblivions reflect the ineluctable porosity of human life and the fertile fragility of forgetting.
Trade Review"Rapp's ambitious and exciting work plumbs the depths of Plato's text with verve and sings with a voice as poetic as Plato's own." --Highly Recommended -Choice Magazine "This is an extraordinarily creative, and lyrically written, meditation on the philosophical meaning and experiential richness of what is, by any measure, one of Plato's most creative and lyrical dialogues. Countering the all too comon belief that Plato was strictly hostile to poetry and poets, an idea the *Phaedrus* belies, Rapp weaves contemporary poetic voices into her meditation on this preeminently Greek philosophical vision. The result is a tapesty of exceptional beauty and insight." -- -Louis Ruprecht Georgia State University
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Replete & Porous: Reading the Phaedrus and Writing the Soul 1. The Teeming Body: Making Images of the Soul Through Words 2. The Fluid Body: Madness & Displaced Discourse 3. The Torn Body: Forgotten Logos & Unmoored Ideals Epilogue: Beyond the Phaedrus Ghost Ribs of Discourse: Radical & Domesticated Forgetting in Euripides, Zhuangzi, and Aristotle Poetics as First Philosophy Notes Bibliography Index
