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Remarkable.33.2 2016

* Polis *

Plato's Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought.

* Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction: Plato's Menagerie

Part I. The Animal of Fable and Myth
1. Making Music with Aesop's Fables in the Phaedo / Heidi Northwood
2. "Talk to the Animals": On the Myth of Cronos in the Statesman / David Farrell Krell

Part II. Socrates as muōps and narkē
3. American Gadfly: Plato and the Problem of Metaphor / Michael Naas
4. Till Human Voices Wake Us and We Drown: The Aporia-fish in the Meno / Thomas Thorp

Part III. The Socratic Animal as Truth-Teller and Provocateur
5. We the Bird-Catchers: Receiving the Truth in the Phaedo and the Apology / S. Montgomery Ewegen
6. The Dog on the Fly / H. Peter Steeves

Part IV. The Political Animal
7. Taming Horses and Desires: Plato's Politics of Care / Jeremy Bell
8. Who Let the Dogs Out? Tracking the Philosophical Life among the Wolves and Dogs of the Republic / Christopher Long

Part V. The (En)gendered Animal
9. The City of Sows and Sexual Differentiation in the Republic / Marina McCoy
10. Animality and Sexual Difference in the Timaeus / Sara Brill

Part VI. The Philosophical Animal
11. Animal Sacrifice in Plato's Later Methodology / Holly Moore
12. The Animals That Therefore We Were? Aristophanes's Double-Creatures and the Question of Origins / Drew A. Hyland

Part VII. Animals and the Afterlife
13. Animals and Angels: The Myth of Life as a Whole in Republic 10 / Claudia Baracchi
14. Of Beasts and Heroes: The Promiscuity of Humans and Animals in the Myth of Er / Francisco J. Gonzalez

List of Contributors
Plato's Animals Index
Name and Subject Index

Platos Animals Gadflies Horses Swans and Other

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/2015
      ISBN13: 9780253016171, 978-0253016171
      ISBN10: 0253016177
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      Remarkable.33.2 2016

      * Polis *

      Plato's Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought.

      * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

      Table of Contents

      Editors' Introduction: Plato's Menagerie

      Part I. The Animal of Fable and Myth
      1. Making Music with Aesop's Fables in the Phaedo / Heidi Northwood
      2. "Talk to the Animals": On the Myth of Cronos in the Statesman / David Farrell Krell

      Part II. Socrates as muōps and narkē
      3. American Gadfly: Plato and the Problem of Metaphor / Michael Naas
      4. Till Human Voices Wake Us and We Drown: The Aporia-fish in the Meno / Thomas Thorp

      Part III. The Socratic Animal as Truth-Teller and Provocateur
      5. We the Bird-Catchers: Receiving the Truth in the Phaedo and the Apology / S. Montgomery Ewegen
      6. The Dog on the Fly / H. Peter Steeves

      Part IV. The Political Animal
      7. Taming Horses and Desires: Plato's Politics of Care / Jeremy Bell
      8. Who Let the Dogs Out? Tracking the Philosophical Life among the Wolves and Dogs of the Republic / Christopher Long

      Part V. The (En)gendered Animal
      9. The City of Sows and Sexual Differentiation in the Republic / Marina McCoy
      10. Animality and Sexual Difference in the Timaeus / Sara Brill

      Part VI. The Philosophical Animal
      11. Animal Sacrifice in Plato's Later Methodology / Holly Moore
      12. The Animals That Therefore We Were? Aristophanes's Double-Creatures and the Question of Origins / Drew A. Hyland

      Part VII. Animals and the Afterlife
      13. Animals and Angels: The Myth of Life as a Whole in Republic 10 / Claudia Baracchi
      14. Of Beasts and Heroes: The Promiscuity of Humans and Animals in the Myth of Er / Francisco J. Gonzalez

      List of Contributors
      Plato's Animals Index
      Name and Subject Index

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