Diotima at the barricades [electronic resource] : French feminists read Plato / Paul Allen Miller.

Introduction: the sublime freedom of the ancients: Beauvoir, Cixous, and Duras on gender, the erotic, and transcendence : Antiquity and the acte gratuit in Simone de Beauvoir
Orpheus in the cave: Hélène Cixous beyond transcendence
Marguerite Duras: writing and the feminine
Conclusion. 1. The dark continent: Luce Irigaray, The Cave, and the history of Western metaphysics : Theoretical and historical preliminaries: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Lacan
Reflective surfaces: The Cave, the Chora, and representation
Mind the gap: the representation of presentation in Republic 5 and 6
Irigaray, The Ethics of Sexual Difference, and the Symposium
Concluding dialogues. 2. Revolution in platonic language: The Chora in Kristeva : Dreaming of the Chora: poetic language and the mother
From speaking subject to semiotic Chora
Plato's Chora: Kristeva, Democritus, and Derrida
Chora, Khôra, [Chora]
Conclusion. 3. Platonic Eros: Kristeva sends her love to Foucault and Lacan : This love train requires a transfer
Manic masculine Eros and the maternal sublime
The third man theme: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Agathon in Lacan
THe erotics of reciprocity: true love in Plato and Faucault
Conclusion. 4. Socrates, Freud, and Dionysus: the double life and death of Sarah Kofman : The Cave and Capital: Derrida, Plato, and Marx
Dreamwork: Plato, Freud, and Irigaray
Socrate(s) bifrons: philosophy, irony, and castration. Epilogue: Plato and truth. Bibliography
Index.