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David
O'Connor
Associate
Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Associate Professor
of Classics
University
of Notre Dame
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"Androgyny,
Intimacy, and Conception in Plato's Symposium"
Despite their
surface focus on male erotic experience, the speeches of Aristophanes
and Socrates in Plato's Symposium in fact celebrate
competing versions of an androgynous view of erotic love,
integrating male and female. The competition between these
two speeches is brought into surprisingly sharp focus by comparing
them to the myth of Adam and Eve in the first few chapters
of Genesis.
This lecture
is co-sponsored by
Dipartimento di Filosofia Storia
e Critica dei Saperi, Università degli Studi di Palermo |
