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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—or invents—a form of true or real life that transcends all merely biological life and everything that is commonly called life.
This book also serves to Introduce a soon-to-be-published seminar by Jacques Derrida, titled "Life-Death," that offers a new side to Derrida's thought.
Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. His books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (both Fordham).Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. His books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (both Fordham).
Sara Brill:This book offers a novel, timely, and provocative reading of the pervasive theme of life in Plato and its significance for the history of Western thought. Naas highlights the dialogue that Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Giorgio Agamben, and others have carried on with Plato—offering his own supplements and corrections along the way. The result is a compelling and thought-provoking reading of Plato’s contribution to what is perhaps the most vital and volatile concept in contemporary theoretical discourse.
The significance of the gigantomachia, the battle between Titans and Olympians, for the history of philosophy and contemporary theory is illuminated with exceptional learning and insight in Naas's analysis of Plato's struggle to articulate the relation of the being of the world to the existence of the living.
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Statesman, and it is filled with original insights about its importance in the corpus, its connections to other dialogues, and its centrality to a range of Platonic themes not normally associated with it.
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