The question of life, Michael Naas argues, though rarely foregrounded by Plato, runs through and structures his thought. By characterizing being in terms of life, Plato in many of his later dialogues, including the Statesman, begins to discover―or, better, to invent―a notion of true or real life that would be opposed to all merely biological or animal life, a form of life that would be more valuable than everything we call life and every life that can actually be lived.
This emphasis on life in the Platonic dialogues illuminates the structural relationship between many of Plato’s most time-honored distinctions, such as being and becoming, soul and body. At the same time, it helps to explain the enormous power and authority that Plato’s thought has exercised, for good or ill, over our entire philosophical and religious tradition.
Lucid yet sophisticated, Naas’s account offers a fundamental rereading of what the concept of life entails, one that inflects a range of contemporary conversations, from biopolitics, to the new materialisms, to the place of the human within the living world.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
£ 8.95
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Book Description Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Beginning with a reading of Plato's Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in Plato's thought. It argues that in his later dialogues Plato discovers--orinvents--a form of true or real life that transcends all merely biological life and everything that is commonly called life. Seller Inventory # B9780823279678
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 30527895-n
Book Description HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # FW-9780823279678
Book Description Condition: New. 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780823279678
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 255 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __0823279677
Book Description Condition: New. In. Seller Inventory # ria9780823279678_new
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 30527895-n
Book Description Condition: New. 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780823279678