Diotima at the barricades French feminists read Plato 1st Edition by Paul Allen Miller 9780199640201 0199640203

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ISBN 10: 0199640203

ISBN 13: 9780199640201

Author: Paul Allen Miller

Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary tradition. Paul Allen Miller shows how individual works of Anglo-American figures such as Toril Moi, Judith Butler, and Kaja Silverman, as well as movements such as queer theory, are rooted in feminist theoretical debates that began in the sixties in France and have continued right up to the present day. Miller demonstrates that French philosophy as represented by writers as diverse as Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, Sarah Kofman, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Luce Irigaray have had a profound influence on literary, theoretical, and cultural studies in the Anglo-American world. He reveals that in order to understand the intellectual substructure of much of later Anglo-American critical theory, it is crucial to examine the development of post-modern French feminist thought in relation to its dialogue with antiquity. In modern feminism and post-structuralism, the ancient world, and Plato in particular, truly function as our theoretical unconscious.

Table of contents:

Part 1: The Dark Continent: Luce Irigaray, the Cave, and the History of Western Metaphysics

• Chapter 1. Theoretical and Historical Preliminaries: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Lacan

• Chapter 2. Reflective Surfaces: The Cave, the Chora, and Representation

• Chapter 3. Mind the Gap: The Representation of Representation in Republic 5 and 6

• Chapter 4. Irigaray, The Ethics of Sexual Difference, and the Symposium

• Chapter 5. Concluding Dialogues

Part 2: Revolution in Platonic Language: The Chora in Kristeva

• Chapter 1. Dreaming of the Chora: Poetic Language and the Mother

• Chapter 2. From Speaking Subject to Semiotic Chora

• Chapter 3. Plato´s Chora: Kristeva, Democritus, and Derrida

• Chapter 4. Chora, Khôra, Xôvra

• Chapter 5. Conclusion

Part 3: Platonic Eros: Kristeva Sends Her Love to Foucault and Lacan

• Chapter 1. This Love Train Requires a Transfer

• Chapter 2. Manic Masculine Eros and the Maternal Sublime

• Chapter 3. The Third Man Theme: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Agathon in Lacan

• Chapter 4. The Erotics of Reciprocity: True Love in Plato and Foucault

• Chapter 5. Conclusion

Part 4: Socrates, Freud, and Dionysus: The Double Life and Death of Sarah Kofman

• Chapter 1. The Cave and Capital: Derrida, Plato, and Marx

• Chapter 2. Dreamwork: Plato, Freud, and Irigaray

• Chapter 3. Socrate(s) bifrons: Philosophy, Irony, and Castration

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