Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored : Reading Plato's Phaedrus and Writing the Soul.

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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.