Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. Classical Memories/Modern Identities.

Miller, Paul Allen:

ISBN 10: 0814210708 / ISBN 13: 9780814210703

Published by OHIO ST UNIV PRESS., 2007

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270 S. / p. Sauberes, gutes Exemplar / Cover slightly bumped, otherwise a good copy - Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Remaking the Soul: -- Antiquity, Postmodernism, and Genealogies of the Self -- The Modernist Revolt: History, Politics, and Allegory, -- Or Classicism in Occupied France Historicizing Transcendence: -- Antigone, the Good, and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis Lacan, the Symposium, and Transference -- Writing the Subject: -- Derrida Asks Plato to Take a Letter -- The Art of Self-Fashioning, or Foucault on the Alcibiades: Caring for the Self and Others Searching for a Usable Past -- Queering Alcibiades: Persius on Foucault and Halperin -- Works Cited -- Index. - Summary: Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault, by Paul Allen Miller, argues that a key element of postmodern French intellectual life has been the reception of Plato. This fact has gone underappreciated in the Anglophone world due to a fundamental division in culture. Until very recently, the concerns of academic philosophy and philology have had little in common. On the one hand, this is due to analytic philosophys self-confinement to questions of epistemology, speech act theory, and philosophy of science. As such, it has had little to say about the relation between antique and contemporary modes of thought. On the other hand, blindness to the merits of postmodern thought is also due to Anglo-American philologys own parochial instincts. Ensconced within a nineteenth-century model of Alterumswissenschaft, only a minority of classicists have made forays into philosophical, psychoanalytic, and other speculative modes of inquiry. The result has been that postmodern French thought has largely been the province of scholars of modern languages. A situation thus emerges in which most classicists do not know theory, and so cannot appreciate the scope of these thinkers contribution to our understanding of the genealogy of Western thought, while most theorists do not know the Platonic texts and their contexts that ground them. This book bridges this gap, offering detailed and theoretically informed readings of French postmodernisms chief thinkers debts to Plato and the ancient world. ISBN 9780814210703 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 563 Originalpappband / Original hardback.

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• Title: Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. Classical Memories/Modern Identities.
• Publisher: OHIO ST UNIV PRESS.
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814210708
• ISBN 13: 9780814210703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Auflage: Parental Adviso.
• Condition: Wie neu
• Weight: 563 grams
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Postmodern Spiritual Practices: The Construction of the Subject and the Reception of Plato in Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault, by Paul Allen Miller, argues that a key element of postmodern French intellectual life has been the reception of Plato. This fact has gone underappreciated in the Anglophone world due to a fundamental division in culture. Until very recently, the concerns of academic philosophy and philology have had little in common. On the one hand, this is due to analytic philosophy’s self-confinement to questions of epistemology, speech act theory, and philosophy of science. As such, it has had little to say about the relation between antique and contemporary modes of thought.
On the other hand, blindness to the merits of postmodern thought is also due to Anglo-American philology’s own parochial instincts. Ensconced within a nineteenth-century model of Alterumswissenschaft, only a minority of classicists have made forays into philosophical, psychoanalytic, and other speculative modes of inquiry. The result has been that postmodern French thought has largely been the province of scholars of modern languages. 
A situation thus emerges in which most classicists do not know theory, and so cannot appreciate the scope of these thinkers’ contribution to our understanding of the genealogy of Western thought, while most theorists do not know the Platonic texts and their contexts that ground them. This book bridges this gap, offering detailed and theoretically informed readings of French postmodernism’s chief thinkers’ debts to Plato and the ancient world.

About the Author

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