... This chapter focuses on the conceptual aftershocks stemming from book 3 of Plato’s Laws , where Clinias reveals to his interlocutors that he has been commissioned to settle a new colony. Reading Strauss and Badiou as mutually implicated in a tradition that posits the nonrelation between law...

... of Plato. The main aim of the chapter is to demonstrate why Žižek’s overall project (surprising as this might seem) has to be read as being fundamentally Platonist and why this is the seemingly lost cause it makes it worth fighting for. Hegel Plato dialectics materialism ...

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... This chapter focuses on the colonial and classed facets of the configuration of bodies in motion. Through a reading in Locke, Hobbes, and Plato it shows how freedom of movement was given within a classed, racialized and gendered framework wherein only restrained movement (presumably limited...

... in contemporary thought. unpolitical impersonal third person law philosophy of immanence This chapter focuses on the conceptual aftershocks stemming from book 3 of Plato’s Laws , where Clinias reveals to his interlocutors that he has been commissioned to settle a new colony. Reading Strauss...

... things that can be found in his Less than Nothing, namely a brilliant reading of Plato. The main aim of the chapter is to demonstrate why Žižek’s overall project (surprising as this might seem) has to be read as being fundamentally Platonist and why this is the seemingly lost cause it makes it worth...