misReading Plato

<p>This book reorients the scholarship on Plato by returning readers to his most fundamental insights and reflections on the nature of the human psyche and the human condition.</p><p>By approaching the dialogue anew, as if for the first time, the book creates new intellectual pathways by opening the conversation to a clash of ideas. The contributors offer nuanced, nontraditional readings of Plato, readings that not only analyze but also build on the dialogues by bringing them into conversation with psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and contemporary continental thought more broadly. It addresses a major gap in the literature caused by reading Plato as a metaphysician or moral or political philosopher and not, primarily, as a psychologist.</p><p>Psychologists and scholars in philosophy, psychoanalysis, Platonic thought, and other humanities-related disciplines will find this new approach to Plato refreshing, accessible, and uniquely innovative.</p> <p><strong>Part 1</strong>: Aesthetics as First Philosophy 1. The Multiplicity of Man: Beyond the Postmodern 2. Farrago: Mythos and Logos in Plato's Phaedrus 3. Plato at the Opera: The Sounds of Philosophia 4. True Lies: A Defense of the Sophists <strong>Part 2</strong>: The Ethics of Desire 5. Blinded by Desire: Self-Deception and the Possibility of the True Lie in Plato's Republic 6. Philosophical "Descent": Between the Philosopher and the Other 7. "Halt!": Socrates, Levinas, and the Divine Sign 8. Ignorance, Flattery, and Dialectic: Philosophical Rhetoric in Plato's Gorgias <strong>Part 3</strong>: The Desire of Ethics 9. Being & Seeming: On Socractes' Ontological Humiliation of the Sophists 10. The Noble Taboo: Homoerotic Desire and Philosophic Inquiry 11. Division and Proto-Racialism in the Statesman 12. Hunting in Plato: On Noticing 13. The Philosophical Poet and the Poetic Philosopher 14. In Search of the Natural Beginning 15. Plato's Final Dialogue 16. Who is the Philosopher King?</p>