Diotima at the Barricades argues that the debates that emerged from the burgeoning of feminist intellectual life in post-modern France involved complex, structured, and reciprocal exchanges on the interpretation and position of Plato and other ancient texts in the western philosophical and literary tradition.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Sublime Freedom of the Ancients: de Beauvoir, Cixous, and Duras on Gender, the Erotic, and Transcendence
- 1: The Dark Continent: Luce Irigaray, the Cave, and the History of Western Metaphysics
- 2: Revolution in Platonic Language: The Chora in Kristeva
- 3: Platonic Eros: Kristeva Sends Her Love to Foucault and Lacan
- 4: Socrates, Freud, and Dionysus: The Double Life and Death of Sarah Kofman
- Epilogue
- References
