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Plato's Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts

Contributor(s): Bell, Jeremy (Editor), Naas, Michael (Editor), Long, Christopher (Contribution by), Baracchi, Claudia (Contribution by), Brill, Sara (Contribution by), Ewegen, S Montgomery (Contribution by), Gonzalez, Francisco (Contribution by), Steeves, H Peter (Contribution by), Hyland, Drew A (Contribution by), Krell, David Farrell (Contribution by), McCoy, Marina (Contribution by), Moore, Holly (Contribution by)

ISBN: 9780253016171

Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Pub Date: May 1, 2015

Dewey: 184

LCCN: 2014039533

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.61" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.88 lbs) 270 pages

Series: Studies in Continental Thought

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Description: The volume includes a comprehensive annotated index to Plato's bestiary in both Greek and English.

Review Quotes:

"Remarkable.33.2 2016"--Polis

"Plato's Animals is a strong volume of beautifully written paeans to postmodern themes found in premodern thought."--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"Shows readers of Plato that he remains significant to issues currently pursued in Continental thought and especially in relation to Derrida and Heidegger."--Robert Metcalf, University of Colorado, Denver

"A unique and intriguing point of entry into the dialogues and a variety of concerns from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics, politics, and aesthetics."--Eric Sanday, University of Kentucky

"Will provide fertile ground for future work in this area."--Jill Gordon, author of Plato's Erotic World: From Cosmic Origins to Human Death

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