Plato and SexISBN: 978-0-7456-2641-3
Paperback
224 pages
September 2010, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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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