{"product_id":"plato-and-the-invention-of-michael-naas-9780823279685","title":"Plato and the Invention of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe question of life, Michael Naas argues, though rarely foregrounded by Plato, runs through and structures his thought. By characterizing being in terms of life, Plato in many of his later dialogues, including the \u003ci\u003eStatesman\u003c\/i\u003e, begins to discover--or, better, to invent--a notion of true or real life that would be opposed to all merely biological or animal life, a form of life that would be more valuable than everything we call life and every life that can actually be lived. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis emphasis on life in the Platonic dialogues illuminates the structural relationship between many of Plato's most time-honored distinctions, such as being and becoming, soul and body. At the same time, it helps to explain the enormous power and authority that Plato's thought has exercised, for good or ill, over our entire philosophical and religious tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLucid yet sophisticated, Naas's account offers a fundamental rereading of what the concept of life entails, one that inflects a range of contemporary conversations, from biopolitics, to the new materialisms, to the place of the human within the living world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Naas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823279685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823279685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2018","brand":"Michael Naas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980628492543,"sku":"9780823279685","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ec7509b-ef66-4f87-bc1a-90d63a668122.jpg?v=1683251000","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/plato-and-the-invention-of-michael-naas-9780823279685","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}