Plato Exits the Pharmacy: An Answer to the Derridean Critique of the Phaedrus and Timaeus

By framing his deconstruction of Plato’s Phaedrus and Timaeus as a response to Platonism, Jacques Derrida overlooks the possibility of a Platonic philosophy beyond dogma and doctrine. This thesis argues that Derrida’s deconstructions target a particularly Platonist abstraction of the dialogues, and...

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Main Author: Tsantsoulas, Tiffany
Other Authors: Gonzalez, Francisco
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30692
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3588