Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored: Reading Plato’s Phaedrus and Writing the Soul by Jennifer R. Rapp

Rapp begins with a question posed by poet Theodore Roethke: “should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?” Through her examination of Plato's Phaedrus and her insig...

“Forming an image of the soul through words” is an idea introduced in passing by Socrates in Plato's Republic that Rapp documents and examines in terms of the word-images of the so...

The theory of the soul, as it is presented in the texts of classical philosophers, is a theory that tries to explain how vitality and movement are attached to existence and human b...

In the conclusion Rapp situates Plato in relationship to Aristotle, Euripides, and Zhuangzi (the 4th century BCE Daoist figure) in order to extend the scope and significance of the...

The uncarved, living animal analogy is developed in this chapter in terms of the dissolution, decay, and destruction to which bodies (animal, human, and textual) are subject, a dir...

Data becomes something of a mirror in which people see themselves reflected. (Sorapure 270)In a 2014 essay for The New Yorker, the humourist David Sedaris recounts an obsession spu...

The article presents the main directions of the domestic psychological science development which are devoted to the psychology of the Ukrainian person and the Ukrainian people in t...

Rapp's introduction is both a reflective essay on ordinary forms of forgetting and their significance for how we think about selfhood as well as an anticipatory sketch of the major...