Naas Plato and the Invention of Life

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8232-7970-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Naas, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Naas Michael:
Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. His books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (both Fordham).Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. His books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (both Fordham).