A Queer Feeling for Plato
Corporeal Affects, Philosophical Hermeneutics, and Queer Receptions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emanuela Bianchi (0000-0002-5363-7449, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University, 19 University Place, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003, USA) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 139-162 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2016.1182733 |
| OpenAlex | W2399371495 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 44 |
This paper takes Plato's metaphor of poetic transmission as magnetic charge in the Ion as a central trope for thinking through the various relationships between philosophy and literature; between poetry, interpretation, and truth; and between erotic affects and the material, corporeal, queer dimensions of reception. The affective dimensions of the Platonic text in the Ion, Republic, Symposium, and Phaedrus are examined at length, and the explicit accounts of ascent to philosophical truth are shown to be complicated by the persistence of tropes of corporeal and affective downgoing, with particular attention afforded to the figures of Eros, Hermes, and shame. The paper argues for an unbroken connection between these scenes of classical philosophy and the emergence of homosexuality in relation to the study of the classics in Victorian England
Art · Epistemology · Feeling · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Metaphor · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Relation (database · Shame · Theology · Trope (literature · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Philosophy
Plato and the Poets
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Between Men
Before sexuality
Tragedy, Women And The Family In Plato’s Republic
Antidotes And Incantations
Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature
Platonic Erôs and What Men Call Love
Between Ecstasy and TruthInterpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus
Listening to the Cicadas
Plato and Erotic Reciprocity
The Aesthetics of Mimesis
Plato's Erotic World
On (mis)interpreting Plato's Ion
And in Plato
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
A thousand plateaus
Prudes, Perverts, and Tyrants
An Archive of Feelings
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
A View from the Bottom
How Soon Is Now
Depression
Touching Feeling
Live Thinking, or the Psychagogy of Michel Foucault
"Socratic Love" as a Disguise for Same-Sex Love in the Italian Renaissance
The Queer Art of Failure
The Turn to Affect
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |