Plato and Sex

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2640-6

Hardcover

224 pages

September 2010, Polity

Other Available Formats: Paperback

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Original and innovative new book which looks at the relationship between Plato’s dialogues and the modern meaning of ‘sex’
Stella Sandford is very well respected within the field and her new book is likely to spark debate within feminist philosophy and psychoanalytic theory
Includes critical readings of the theories of sex and sexuation in Freud and Lacan, and relating such theories to Plato’s writings
With its groundbreaking interpretations of the Republic, the Symposium and the Timaeus, this book opens up a new approach to sex as a philosophical concept