Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored : Reading Plato's Phaedrus and Writing the Soul.
Rapp, Jennifer R.
Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored : Reading Plato's Phaedrus and Writing the Soul. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (218 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Replete and Porous: Reading the Phaedrus and Writing the Soul -- 1. The Teeming Body: Making Images of the Soul through Words -- 2. The Fluid Body: Madness and Displaced Discourse -- 3. The Torn Body: Forgotten Logos and Unmoored Ideals -- Conclusion. Ghost Ribs of Discourse beyond the Phaedrus: Radical and Domesticated Forgetting in Euripides, Zhuangzi, and Aristotle -- Epilogue: Poetics as First Philosophy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Rapp offers a recast interpretation of Plato through a focus upon the transformative processes required by his texts in which spaces of ordinary oblivion put a reader at risk. The decomposing and generative effects of these oblivions reflect the ineluctable porosity of human life and the fertile fragility of forgetting.
9780823257447
Plato.
Electronic books.
B380 -- .R37 2014eb
184
Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored : Reading Plato's Phaedrus and Writing the Soul. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (218 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Replete and Porous: Reading the Phaedrus and Writing the Soul -- 1. The Teeming Body: Making Images of the Soul through Words -- 2. The Fluid Body: Madness and Displaced Discourse -- 3. The Torn Body: Forgotten Logos and Unmoored Ideals -- Conclusion. Ghost Ribs of Discourse beyond the Phaedrus: Radical and Domesticated Forgetting in Euripides, Zhuangzi, and Aristotle -- Epilogue: Poetics as First Philosophy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Rapp offers a recast interpretation of Plato through a focus upon the transformative processes required by his texts in which spaces of ordinary oblivion put a reader at risk. The decomposing and generative effects of these oblivions reflect the ineluctable porosity of human life and the fertile fragility of forgetting.
9780823257447
Plato.
Electronic books.
B380 -- .R37 2014eb
184