Otherwise Than the Binary New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture 1st Edition by Jessica Elbert Decker, Danielle A Layne, Monica Vilhauer ISBN 9781438488790 1438488793

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Author: Jessica Elbert Decker, Danielle A Layne, Monica Vilhauer

Otherwise Than the Binary New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part One: Myth, Divination, and the Pre-Platonic

Chapter One Was Homer’s Circe a Witch?

Circe the Goddess and Magic

Homer and Magic?

The Rhabdoi

The Pharmaka

Circe’s Beasts

Circe: Deeds and Descriptions

Circe’s Morality

Drug Morality

Necromancy

Sexual Morality

Our Conception of a Witch?

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Chapter Two The Oracle as Intermediary

The Reason of Myth

The Oracle at Delphi

Expropriation

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Chapter Three The Roots of Life and Death in the Homeric Hymns and Presocratic Philosophy

The Tension of the Lyre: The Ambiguous, Living Logos of Apollo and Hermes

Generative Liminality: Demeter, Persephone, and Aphrodite

Notes

Bibliography

Chapter Four The Intelligibility of Difference: Anaxagoras’ and Lugones’ Ontologies of Separation

Introduction

Anaxagoras’ Holistic Pluralism

Nous and the Problem of Dualism

Nous and the Two Moments of Cosmogenesis

Atemporal Cosmology

Models for Separation and Mixture in Anaxagoras

Curdled Emulsion: Lugones’s Model of Difference without Split-Separation

Conclusion: The Politics of the Intelligibility of Difference

Notes

Bibliography

Part Two: Platonic Transformations

Chapter Five As Much Mixture as Will Suffice: Socrates’ Embodied Intermediacy in Plato’s Phaedo and Symposium

Magic, Mystery, and Mixture in the Ancient World

Pythagoras and Mixture

Empedocles

Anaxagoras

The Intermediacy of Eros in the Symposium

Socrates’ Embodiment of Intermediacy in the Phaedo

Socrates’ Friends: Distinguishing Mixture and Intermediacy

Concluding Thoughts: Where Do We Go from Here?

Notes

Bibliography

Chapter Six Overturning Soul-Body Dualism in Plato’s Timaeus

Cosmic Life

Mortal Life

Chôra: The Excluded Feminine?

Retrieving Feminine Movement

A Final Tale about Women

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Chapter Seven The Argument of Socrates’ Action in Republic V

The Female Drama

The Action of the Argument

Glaucon’s Principle of Weakness and Strength

Final Thoughts

Notes

Bibliography

Part Three: Late Antique Destabilizations

Chapter Eight Divine Mothers: Plotinus’ Erotic Productive Causes

The Problem: Irigaray and Plotinus’ Material Mother

Plotinus’ Metaphysical System and the Origins of Gender, Sex, and Sexuality

Heavenly and Pandemic Aphrodite: The Birth of the Erotic Soul

Conclusion: Touching the Good

Notes

Bibliography

Chapter Nine Beyond Maleness and Femaleness? The Case of the Virgin Goddesses in Proclus’ Metaphysics

Maleness and Femaleness in Proclus’ Metaphysics

Proclus’ Virgin Goddesses

The Virgin Goddesses and the Binary

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Chapter Ten Hekate and the Liminality of Souls

Knotted Binaries and Beyond

The Problem of the Soul

Hekate and the Cosmic Soul

Hekate the Symptom and a Solution

Notes

Bibliography

Chapter Eleven Christian Platonists in Support of Gender Equality: Bardaisan, Clement, Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and Eriugena

Introduction: Methodological Guidelines

The Middle Platonists Bardaisan and Clement of Alexandria

Origen of Alexandria: A Christian Platonist

The Christian Neoplatonist Gregory of Nyssa, Follower of Origen

Eriugena: The Last Western Patristic Platonist and the Heritage of Origen, the Cappadocians, and Maximus

Concluding Remarks and Reflections

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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