Plato's Animals

Jeremy Bell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University.Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is author of Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media and Derrida From Now On.

"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

• Editors' Introduction: Plato's MenageriePart I. The Animal of Fable and Myth1. Making Music with Aesop's Fables in the Phaedo / Heidi Northwood2. "Talk to the Animals": On the Myth of Cronos in the Statesman / David Farrell KrellPart II. Socrates as muōps and narkē3. American Gadfly: Plato and the Problem of Metaphor / Michael Naas4. Till Human Voices Wake Us and We Drown: The Aporia-fish in the Meno / Thomas ThorpPart III. The Socratic Animal as Truth-Teller and Provocateur5. We the Bird-Catchers: Receiving the Truth in the Phaedo and the Apology / S. Montgomery Ewegen6. The Dog on the Fly / H. Peter SteevesPart IV. The Political Animal7. Taming Horses and Desires: Plato's Politics of Care / Jeremy Bell8. Who Let the Dogs Out? Tracking the Philosophical Life among the Wolves and Dogs of the Republic / Christopher LongPart V. The (En)gendered Animal9. The City of Sows and Sexual Differentiation in the Republic / Marina McCoy10. Animality and Sexual Difference in the Timaeus / Sara BrillPart VI. The Philosophical Animal11. Animal Sacrifice in Plato's Later Methodology / Holly Moore12. The Animals That Therefore We Were? Aristophanes's Double-Creatures and the Question of Origins / Drew A. HylandPart VII. Animals and the Afterlife13. Animals and Angels: The Myth of Life as a Whole in Republic 10 / Claudia Baracchi14. Of Beasts and Heroes: The Promiscuity of Humans and Animals in the Myth of Er / Francisco J. GonzalezList of ContributorsPlato's Animals IndexName and Subject Index