ISBN:
9780191065668
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (331 pages)
Series Statement:
Classics in Theory Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.420944
Keywords:
Feminist theory--France
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary tradition.
Abstract:
Cover -- Diotima at the Barricades: French Feminists Read Plato -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Sublime Freedom of the Ancients: Beauvoir, Cixous, and Duras on Gender, the Erotic, and Transcendence -- 1. Antiquity and the acte gratuit in Simone de Beauvoir -- 2. Orpheus in the Cave: Hélène Cixousbeyond Transcendence -- 3. Marguerite Duras: Writing and the Feminine -- 4. Conclusion -- 1: The Dark Continent: Luce Irigaray, the Cave, and the History of Western Metaphysics -- 1. Theoretical and Historical Preliminaries: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Lacan -- 2. Reflective Surfaces: The Cave, the Chora, and Representation -- 3. Mind the Gap: The Representation of Representation in Republic 5 and 6 -- 4. Irigaray, The Ethics of Sexual Difference, and the Symposium -- 5. Concluding Dialogues -- 2: Revolution in Platonic Language: The Chora in Kristeva -- 1. Dreaming of the Chora: Poetic Language and the Mother -- 2. From Speaking Subject to Semiotic Chora -- 3. Plato´s Chora: Kristeva, Democritus, and Derrida -- 4. Chora, Khôra, X vra -- 5. Conclusion -- 3: Platonic Eros: Kristeva Sends Her Love to Foucault and Lacan -- 1. This Love Train Requires a Transfer -- 2. Manic Masculine Eros and the Maternal Sublime -- 3. The Third Man Theme: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Agathon in Lacan -- 4. The Erotics of Reciprocity: True Love in Plato and Foucault -- 5. Conclusion -- 4: Socrates, Freud, and Dionysus: The Double Life and Death of Sarah Kofman -- 1. The Cave and Capital: Derrida, Plato, and Marx -- 2. Dreamwork: Plato, Freud, and Irigaray -- 3. Socrate(s) bifrons: Philosophy, Irony, and Castration -- Epilogue: Plato and Truth -- Bibliography -- Index.
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