| Plato's Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts Contributor(s): Bell, Jeremy (Editor), Naas, Michael (Editor), Long, Christopher (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0253016134 ISBN-13: 9780253016133 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $79.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Philosophy | Essays - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 184 |
| LCCN: 2014039533 |
| Series: Studies in Continental Thought |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 270 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, swans, dogs, horses, and other animals that populate Plato's work are not just rhetorical embellishments. Animals are central to Plato's understanding of the hierarchy between animals, humans, and gods and are crucial to his ideas about education, sexuality, politics, aesthetics, the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and philosophy itself. The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English. |