Plato's Animals - (Studies in Continental Thought) Annotated by Jeremy Bell & Michael Naas (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Plato's Animals </i>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Plato's Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought.</p>-- "Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"<br><br><p>Remarkable.33.2 2016</p>-- "Polis"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Jeremy Bell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University.</p><p>Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is author of <i>Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media</i> and<i> Derrida From Now On</i>.</p>
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