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Book SynopsisPlat?n establishes the principle that literature should cut through the notion of an ideal truth rather than be used as a vehicle for subjective visions and aesthetic tropes by those claiming to be artists.' To engage with this centrality of human consciousness means to integrate a single source of origin: a Plat?nic ??s?a. Contemporary hermeneutics draw upon perceptions that the origin is elliptic in postmodern and continental philosophical trains of thought. Moreover, much obscurity arises from Plat?n's own insistence on over-emphasis, and what some philosophers and philologists would consider taut tautology'which leaves vast amounts of passages in Pre-Socratic manuscripts and Plat?nic dialogues open to speculation and subjectivity. Philosophical debates center on the incapability of pinpointing truth, the real, or some definitive and/or tangible self-referential core within an age of pluralism and uncertainty. For this reason, students and scholars in literary theor
Table of Contents
Preface – Acknowledgements – A Note on Translations – Prooímion Platωn’s Reality, Baudrillard’s Nostalgia – Platωn’s Oὐσία: The Paradox of the Forms – Platωn Is Dead: Romanticist Interludes to the Οὐσία – Jarry’s ’Pataphysics – Baudrillard’s Nostalgia in an Age of Global Acceleration – Baudrillard’s In Vacuo and the Autistic Body Politic – Žižek, Somnambulance, and a Walk through the Desert of the Real – Epilogue Thanatos of the Οὐσία? – Index of Greek Lexicon – Index.
