Diotima at the Barricades

French Feminists Read Plato

Paul Allen Miller (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2015
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-964020-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina.

Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: The Sublime Freedom of the Ancients: de Beauvoir, Cixous, and Duras on Gender, the Erotic, and Transcendence ; 1. The Dark Continent: Luce Irigaray, the Cave, and the History of Western Metaphysics ; 2. Revolution in Platonic Language: The Chora in Kristeva ; 3. Platonic Eros: Kristeva Sends Her Love to Foucault and Lacan ; 4. Socrates, Freud, and Dionysus: The Double Life and Death of Sarah Kofman ; Epilogue ; References

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.12.2015
Reihe/Serie	Classics in Theory Series
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 222 mm
Gewicht	512 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-964020-3 / 0199640203
ISBN-13	978-0-19-964020-1 / 9780199640201
Zustand	Neuware