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      Plato and the Metaphysical Feminine offers a new interpretation of the role of the female and the feminine in Plato's political dialogues—the Republic, Laws, and Timaeus—informed by Deleuze's film theory and Irigaray's psychoanalytic feminism. Irene Han reads Plato against the grain in order to close the gap between the vitalists and Plato, instead of magnifying their differences. Han explores the ambivalence that the vitalisttradition, Irigaray, and Derrida have towards Platonism. The application of Deleuzian and Irigarayan concepts to the ancient texts produces a new reading of Plato, focusing on the centrality and importance of motion, change, sensuality, and becoming to Platonic philosophy and, thereby, reinterprets Platonic philosophy in the direction ofHeraclitus rather than Parmenides: as feminist rather than masculinist, and as mimetic. It therefore prioritizes Heraclitean principles of movement and flux over Form, the feminine over masculine, and materiality, feeling, or sensation over abstraction and universal essence. Han's exploration illustrates how, in Plato's thought, the feminine maps itself onto the plane of phenomena—a plane associated with vitalist themes such as motion, tactility, and change (metabolē). Platonicmetaphysics is recontextualized by illustrating how Being expresses itself through processes of (feminine) becoming. With this reformulation, the resulting account of Platonic Being destabilizes any purported Platonic dualism.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Han EAN: 9780192849588 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-07-20 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Political science and theory, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Irene Han is a faculty member at NYU-Gallatin and Providence College. Her research focuses on ancient political theory and gender and sexuality studies, drawing on contemporary literary theory, theory of cinema, and philological methods.
      Plato and the Metaphysical Feminine offers a new interpretation of the role of the female and the feminine in Plato's political dialogues—the Republic, Laws, and Timaeus—informed by Deleuze's film theory and Irigaray's psychoanalytic feminism. Irene Han reads Plato against the grain in order to close the gap between the vitalists and Plato, instead of magnifying their differences. Han explores the ambivalence that the vitalisttradition, Irigaray, and Derrida have towards Platonism. The application of Deleuzian and Irigarayan concepts to the ancient texts produces a new reading of Plato, focusing on the centrality and importance of motion, change, sensuality, and becoming to Platonic philosophy and, thereby, reinterprets Platonic philosophy in the direction ofHeraclitus rather than Parmenides: as feminist rather than masculinist, and as mimetic. It therefore prioritizes Heraclitean principles of movement and flux over Form, the feminine over masculine, and materiality, feeling, or sensation over abstraction and universal essence. Han's exploration illustrates how, in Plato's thought, the feminine maps itself onto the plane of phenomena—a plane associated with vitalist themes such as motion, tactility, and change (metabolē). Platonicmetaphysics is recontextualized by illustrating how Being expresses itself through processes of (feminine) becoming. With this reformulation, the resulting account of Platonic Being destabilizes any purported Platonic dualism.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Han EAN: 9780192849588 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-07-20 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Political science and theory, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy

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      Irene Han is a faculty member at NYU-Gallatin and Providence College. Her research focuses on ancient political theory and gender and sexuality studies, drawing on contemporary literary theory, theory of cinema, and philological methods.

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