Plato and the Metaphysical Feminine

Plato and the Metaphysical Feminine offers a new interpretation of the role of the female and the feminine in Plato''s political dialogues--the Republic, Laws, and Timaeus--informed by Deleuze''s film theory and Irigaray''s psychoanalytic feminism. Irene Han reads Plato against the grain in order to close the gap between the vitalists and Plato, instead of magnifying their differences. Han explore...