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Beginning with a reading of Plato’s Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in Plato’s thought. It argues that in his later dialogues Plato discovers—or invents—a form of true or real life that transcends all merely biological life and everything that is commonly called life.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Philosophy’s Gigantomachia over Life and Being
1. The Lifelines of the Statesman
2. Life and Spontaneity
3. The Shepherd and the Weaver: A Foucauldian Fable
4. The Measure of Life and Logos
5. Fruits of the Poisonous Tree: Plato and Alcidamas on the Evils of Writing
6. The Life of Law and the Law of Life
7. Plato and the Invention of Life Itself
Conclusion: Life on the Line

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Plato and the Invention of Life

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/04/2018
      ISBN13: 9780823279685, 978-0823279685
      ISBN10: 0823279685
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      Literary studies: ancient, classical

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Beginning with a reading of Plato’s Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in Plato’s thought. It argues that in his later dialogues Plato discovers—or invents—a form of true or real life that transcends all merely biological life and everything that is commonly called life.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: Philosophy’s Gigantomachia over Life and Being
      1. The Lifelines of the Statesman
      2. Life and Spontaneity
      3. The Shepherd and the Weaver: A Foucauldian Fable
      4. The Measure of Life and Logos
      5. Fruits of the Poisonous Tree: Plato and Alcidamas on the Evils of Writing
      6. The Life of Law and the Law of Life
      7. Plato and the Invention of Life Itself
      Conclusion: Life on the Line

      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Index

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