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Emilie Kutash

St. Joseph's College, Philosophy Deaprtment, Faculty Member

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Dr. Emilie Kutash holds a PH.D from the New School for Social Research in Philosophy and a PsyD from Rutgers School of Professional Psychology. Philosophy department of Salem State University. She has taught at St. Josephs College in New York and other colleges. Her book Ten Gifts of the Demiurge: Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2011 and a second book Goddesses of Myth and Cultural Memory on the ancient and modern history of Goddesses is published by Bloomsbury Press , May, 2021. She has over 30 other publications in areas of ancient philosophy, modern philosophy and psychology. She has been invited lecturer at University of Copenhagen, Boston College and Notre dame. Among many publications in peer reviewed journals, is an article on Derrida in Journal of Textual Reasoning and one on Freud and the Talmud in the APA journal Dreaming. , Currently she is pursuing research on the attack on Western philosophy on the part of post war Jewish intellectuals and on modern art. .
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NEOPLATONISM AND GENDER

Classical Review, 2024

S C H U LT Z ( J . ) , WI L B E RD I NG ( J . ) (edd.) Women and the Female in Neoplatonism. (Stu... more

Hans Jonas: The Last German Philosopher and His Jewish Challenge to Modernity: Affirming Life

Modern Judaism, 2024

Victorio Hosle called Hans Jonas "the last German philosopher." Jonas' Memoirs connect changing p... more Victorio Hosle called Hans Jonas "the last German philosopher." Jonas' Memoirs connect changing philosophical priorities with devastating life events. The shock of learning of his former mentor, Heidegger's, affiliation to National Socialism, his exile from Germany and his mother's death in Auschwitz, made the conceptual universe of German Idealism, Husserl and Heidegger, seem nihilistic and akin to a Gnostic denigration of worldliness. The brutal wartime realities exposed a callous removal from nature and any meaningful humanism. After soldiering in the war with "Maccabean rage," he subsequently created his philosophical biology of organism, one which respected the corporeal, metabolic basis of life. His consequent innovations in Environmental and Medical Ethics had an enormous impact on the German scholarly world. Jonas retained a lifelong attachment to German culture and "saved" German philosophy by making critical amendments. Later in life he wrote in German, spent a sabbatical year in Germany, received the medal of honor from the Federal Republic of Germany and honorary doctorates from several German universities. The "German" Jonas brought a respect for ontology and nature to a philosophy that was prone to sterile abstractions. The life-affirming "Jewish" Jonas restored an ethical mandate for responsibility for the future of the planet and humankind to a bereft ethics. "Ever since the Nazi Holocaust it is Western civilization that is on trial." 1 Emil Fackenheim

Polysemy and Its Vicissitudes: Oneirocritical Hermeneutics in Sura and Vienna

Dreaming, 2014

Dreams have an aura of mystery. To the Talmudist they are oracular. For Freud they represent a da... more Dreams have an aura of mystery. To the Talmudist they are oracular. For Freud they represent a dark unknown: the drive dominated cauldron of unconscious desire. Babylonian Sura and Vienna were both Diaspora for the authors of canonical texts on dream interpretation. Remarkably, both Freud and the Talmud brought similar assumptions to this obscure playing field: Dreams hide a "truly real" but deferred meaning, they are polysemic and there are invariant symbols encrypted in their condensed "plastic" imagery. These assumptions allowed ancient interpreters to predict future events and psychoanalysts to uncover past infantile wishes and psychosexual conflict. A "hermeneutics of suspicion" resulted in techniques that empowered an enfranchised interpreter to "cure" and ameliorate the dream's meanings and portents.

PROCLUS' CHôRa : HENOTHEISM AND COSMIC SYMPATHY. NO LEVEL OF BEING IS EXEMPT

Chora, 2022

Chôra-le «cratère à mélanger» maternel, vannant et secouant de Platon-remplit «l'écart explicatif... more Chôra-le «cratère à mélanger» maternel, vannant et secouant de Platon-remplit «l'écart explicatif» entre les paradigmes formels «intelligibles et toujours existants» (48E5) et un monde encosmique «généré et visible». Proclus traite la gamme polysémique des termes utilisés par Platon pour chôra : hypodochê (réceptacle), kratêr (cratère à mélanger), etc., comme désignant des forces actives dans un univers où la sympathie cosmique règne, à partir des plus élevées, jusqu'aux plus basses manifestations de l' «Un» transcendant. L'univers proclusien est un «hénothéisme», dans lequel une «unité» dominante surgit sur la totalité de l'Être et du Devenir. Chôra permet à la fois au monde immatériel et au monde matériel de recevoir, de manière appropriée à chacun, les mêmes dons transcendants que leurs homologues intellectifs-intelligibles supérieurs. aucun niveau de la réalité n'est dépourvu de cette donation. La réceptivité (hypodochê), indéterminée, mais toujours active, est présente à tous les niveaux. L'âme reçoit l'intellect, la temporalité reçoit le temps monadique, la matière reçoit la structure géométrique polyédrique, etc. Chôra n'est pas l'équivalent de la matière, mais permet à la matière d'être imprimée par des paradigmes formels. Dans son rôle de «cratère à mélanger», elle protège la matière de sa potentielle itérabilité et dissolution infinie. Dans l'univers proclusien, le Bien atteint la dernière et la plus extrême de ses limites, il est espace et lieu, recevant à la fois l'expansivité et une capacité à donner place à la forme pour qu'elle puisse s'imposer à la matière. après tout, les dons lui sont accordés depuis la plus haute hypostase, celle de la Limite et de l'illimité, premier niveau après l'Un lui-même. Vitale pour la création, la Chôra est alors la «mère» de tout. il n'est donc pas étonnant que, comme nous le dit Proclus, la chôra soit, en fait, la déesse Rhéa. En hommage à la littérature révélatrice antique, comme les Oracles chaldaïques, Homère et Hésiode, Proclus fournit une élucidation non seulement philosophique, mais aussi théologique, de la chôra. À la différence de Platon, il théologise la Physique.

Anaxagoras and the rhetoric of Plato's middle dialogue theory of forms

Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1993

L'A. suggere que Platon s'est approprie des tropes de la physique d'Anaxagore et les ... more L'A. suggere que Platon s'est approprie des tropes de la physique d'Anaxagore et les a adaptes a un nouvel usage dans la philosophie. Au cours de cette tentative une problematique completement nouvelle a ete introduite dans la philosophie. En examinant cette transposition des tropes d'Anaxagore par Platon, l'A. demontre la capacite des textes a produire des matrices nouvelles de signification a partir de la creation ancienne des mots

Oikoumene, Ouranos, Ousia, and the Outside

Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 2001

Rootpressureprobeshavebeenwidelyemployedtomeasurethehydraulicpropertiesofroots fromvariousplantsi... more Rootpressureprobeshavebeenwidelyemployedtomeasurethehydraulicpropertiesofroots fromvariousplantsinthepasttwodecades.However,theyhavenotbeenusedonthewholerootsystemsof anygramineousseedling.Takingcornseedlingasmaterial,thefeasibilityofarootpressureprobedetermining hydraulic parameters of whole root systems was investigated in this study. Hydraulic conductivities of single root and root system grown hydroponically as well as soil-cultured corn seedlings were determined by root pressure probe, the values were 12.01×10-8 m s-1 MPa-1 , 10.88×10-8 m s-1 MPa-1 and 8.56×10-8 m s-1 MPa-1 , respectively. The figures for the hydraulic conductivity of root systems grown under hydroponic culture and determined by pressure chamber (22.89×10-8 m s-1 MPa-1) were of the same order of magnitude. It was concluded that root pressure probes can be used to measure the hydraulic conductivity of corn seedling root systembyconnectingthemtothemesocotylratherthanthestem.

Jacques Derrida: The Double Liminality of a Philosophical Marrano

Religions, 2019

There is an analogy between two types of liminality: the geographic or cultural ‘outside’ space o... more There is an analogy between two types of liminality: the geographic or cultural ‘outside’ space of the Marrano Jew, alienated from his/her original religion and the one he or she has been forced to adopt, and, a philosophical position that is outside of both Athens and Jerusalem. Derrida finds and re-finds ‘h’ors- texte’, an ‘internal desert’, a ‘secret’ outside place: alien to both the western philosophical tradition and the Hebraic archive. In this liminal space he questions the otherness of the French language to which he was acculturated, and, in a turn to a less discursive modality, autobiography, finds, in the words of Helene Cixous, “the Jew-who-doesn’t know-that-he-is”. Derrida’s galut (exile) is neither Hebrew nor Greek. It is a private place outside of all discourse, which he claims, is inevitably ethnocentric. In inhabiting this outside space, he exercises the prerogative of a Marrano, equipped to critique the French language of his acculturation and the western philosoph...

Proclus on the Psychê

by Emilie Kutash and John Finamore

Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory

The Ten Gifts of the Demiurge : Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus

Proclus' commentary on Plato's "Timaeus" is perhaps the most important survivin... more Proclus' commentary on Plato's "Timaeus" is perhaps the most important surviving Neoplatonic commentary. In it Proclus contemplates nature's mysterious origins and at the same time employs the deductive rigour required to address perennial philosophical questions. Nature, for him, is both divine and mathematically transparent. He renders theories of Time, Eternity, Providence, Evil, Soul and Intellect and constructs an elaborate ontology that includes mathematics and astronomy. He gives ample play to pagan theology too, frequently lapsing into the arcane language of the "Chaldaean Oracles". "Ten Gifts of the Demiurge" is an essential companion to this rich but complex and densely wrought text, providing an analysis of its arguments and showing that it, like the cosmos Proclus reveres, is a living coherent whole. The book provides aides to understanding Proclus' work within the complex background of Neoplatonic philosophy, familiarising the reader with the political context of the Athenian school, analysing Proclus' key terminology, and giving background to the philosophical arguments and ancient sciences upon which Proclus draws. Above all, it helps the reader appreciate the varicoloured light that Proclus sheds on the secrets of nature.

Richard D. Mohr and Barbara Sattler, eds. , One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today . Reviewed by

... Barbara Sattler takes on the issue of how the model to which the Demiurge looks for guidance,... more

Myth, Allegory and Inspired Symbolism in Early and Late Antique Platonism

The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 2020

The idea that mythos and logos are incompatible, and that truth is a product of scientific and di... more The idea that mythos and logos are incompatible, and that truth is a product of scientific and dialectical thinking, was certainly disproven by later Platonic philosophers. Deploying the works of Hesiod and Homer, Homeric Hymns and other such literature, they considered myth a valuable and significant augment to philosophical discourse. Plato’s denigration of myth gave his followers an incentive to read myth as allegory. The Stoics and first-century philosophers such as Philo, treated allegory as a legitimate interpretive strategy. The Middle Platonists incorporated myth, for example, deifying the Monad and Dyad, as did 2nd century Platonists. Plutarch’s Isis and Osiris (2nd century CE), for example, equates Isis and Osiris with form and matter: the god (Osiris) sows in matter (Isis) logoi (forms or ideas) from himself (De Iside. 372F). Porphyry’s allegorizing of Plato’s Cave of the Nymphs is another example. Plotinus is a strong influence on how the late Neoplatonists regarded myth...

Proclus on the Psychê

by Emilie Kutash and John Finamore

All From One, 2016

Eternal Time and Temporal Expansion: Proclus’ Golden Ratio

Late Antique Epistemology, 2009

PROCLUS. S. Gersh (ed.) Interpreting Proclus. From Antiquity to the Renaissance. Pp. x + 409. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Cased, £70, US$110. ISBN: 978-0-521-19849-3

The Classical Review, 2015

The Tropics of Phaedo

The American Journal of Semiotics, 1991

DIVINATION IN LATE ANTIQUITY. C. Addey Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism. Oracles of the Gods. Pp. xvi + 335. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. Cased, £75. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5152-5

The Classical Review, 2016

What did Plato read?

Plato Journal

GODDESSES IN MYTH AND CULTURAL MEMORY GODDESSES IN MYTH AND CULTURAL MEMORY

Bloomsbury Press, 2021

Contents Preface viii Acknowledgments x 1 Introduction: “To Whom Death Never Comes” 1 2 Goddess ... more Contents
Preface viii
Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction: “To Whom Death Never Comes” 1
2 Goddess Prototypes: The Classical Literature 17
3 The Goddesses of Philosophy: The Literature of Later Antiquity 37
4 Virgin, Erotic Temptress, Mother and Cosmic Womb 53
5 Dualism and the Mediating Goddess 73
6 “The Goddess of the Triple Ways”: Triads and Trinities 89
7 Naming the Goddess: Geopolitics and the Intertranslation of Names 107
8 Asherah, Sophia, Shekhinah: Are They Hebrew Goddesses? 123
9 Did Christianity Make the Goddess Disappear? 139
10 Personifying Nature and Wisdom: The Medieval and Early Modern Goddess 155
11 New Mythologies of Gender: Feminists, Psychoanalysts, Epistemologists 171
12 The Goddess Interpreted 189
Notes 196
Select Bibliography 225
Index 232
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Derrida Persecution and the Art of Writing in Traces (5)

This is a paper that I was invited to give in September, 2019 in a conference sponsored by the In... more

NEOPLATONISM AND GENDER

Classical Review, 2024

S C H U LT Z ( J . ) , WI L B E RD I NG ( J . ) (edd.) Women and the Female in Neoplatonism. (Stu... more

Hans Jonas: The Last German Philosopher and His Jewish Challenge to Modernity: Affirming Life

Modern Judaism, 2024

Victorio Hosle called Hans Jonas "the last German philosopher." Jonas' Memoirs connect changing p... more Victorio Hosle called Hans Jonas "the last German philosopher." Jonas' Memoirs connect changing philosophical priorities with devastating life events. The shock of learning of his former mentor, Heidegger's, affiliation to National Socialism, his exile from Germany and his mother's death in Auschwitz, made the conceptual universe of German Idealism, Husserl and Heidegger, seem nihilistic and akin to a Gnostic denigration of worldliness. The brutal wartime realities exposed a callous removal from nature and any meaningful humanism. After soldiering in the war with "Maccabean rage," he subsequently created his philosophical biology of organism, one which respected the corporeal, metabolic basis of life. His consequent innovations in Environmental and Medical Ethics had an enormous impact on the German scholarly world. Jonas retained a lifelong attachment to German culture and "saved" German philosophy by making critical amendments. Later in life he wrote in German, spent a sabbatical year in Germany, received the medal of honor from the Federal Republic of Germany and honorary doctorates from several German universities. The "German" Jonas brought a respect for ontology and nature to a philosophy that was prone to sterile abstractions. The life-affirming "Jewish" Jonas restored an ethical mandate for responsibility for the future of the planet and humankind to a bereft ethics. "Ever since the Nazi Holocaust it is Western civilization that is on trial." 1 Emil Fackenheim

Polysemy and Its Vicissitudes: Oneirocritical Hermeneutics in Sura and Vienna

Dreaming, 2014

Dreams have an aura of mystery. To the Talmudist they are oracular. For Freud they represent a da... more Dreams have an aura of mystery. To the Talmudist they are oracular. For Freud they represent a dark unknown: the drive dominated cauldron of unconscious desire. Babylonian Sura and Vienna were both Diaspora for the authors of canonical texts on dream interpretation. Remarkably, both Freud and the Talmud brought similar assumptions to this obscure playing field: Dreams hide a "truly real" but deferred meaning, they are polysemic and there are invariant symbols encrypted in their condensed "plastic" imagery. These assumptions allowed ancient interpreters to predict future events and psychoanalysts to uncover past infantile wishes and psychosexual conflict. A "hermeneutics of suspicion" resulted in techniques that empowered an enfranchised interpreter to "cure" and ameliorate the dream's meanings and portents.

PROCLUS' CHôRa : HENOTHEISM AND COSMIC SYMPATHY. NO LEVEL OF BEING IS EXEMPT

Chora, 2022

Chôra-le «cratère à mélanger» maternel, vannant et secouant de Platon-remplit «l'écart explicatif... more Chôra-le «cratère à mélanger» maternel, vannant et secouant de Platon-remplit «l'écart explicatif» entre les paradigmes formels «intelligibles et toujours existants» (48E5) et un monde encosmique «généré et visible». Proclus traite la gamme polysémique des termes utilisés par Platon pour chôra : hypodochê (réceptacle), kratêr (cratère à mélanger), etc., comme désignant des forces actives dans un univers où la sympathie cosmique règne, à partir des plus élevées, jusqu'aux plus basses manifestations de l' «Un» transcendant. L'univers proclusien est un «hénothéisme», dans lequel une «unité» dominante surgit sur la totalité de l'Être et du Devenir. Chôra permet à la fois au monde immatériel et au monde matériel de recevoir, de manière appropriée à chacun, les mêmes dons transcendants que leurs homologues intellectifs-intelligibles supérieurs. aucun niveau de la réalité n'est dépourvu de cette donation. La réceptivité (hypodochê), indéterminée, mais toujours active, est présente à tous les niveaux. L'âme reçoit l'intellect, la temporalité reçoit le temps monadique, la matière reçoit la structure géométrique polyédrique, etc. Chôra n'est pas l'équivalent de la matière, mais permet à la matière d'être imprimée par des paradigmes formels. Dans son rôle de «cratère à mélanger», elle protège la matière de sa potentielle itérabilité et dissolution infinie. Dans l'univers proclusien, le Bien atteint la dernière et la plus extrême de ses limites, il est espace et lieu, recevant à la fois l'expansivité et une capacité à donner place à la forme pour qu'elle puisse s'imposer à la matière. après tout, les dons lui sont accordés depuis la plus haute hypostase, celle de la Limite et de l'illimité, premier niveau après l'Un lui-même. Vitale pour la création, la Chôra est alors la «mère» de tout. il n'est donc pas étonnant que, comme nous le dit Proclus, la chôra soit, en fait, la déesse Rhéa. En hommage à la littérature révélatrice antique, comme les Oracles chaldaïques, Homère et Hésiode, Proclus fournit une élucidation non seulement philosophique, mais aussi théologique, de la chôra. À la différence de Platon, il théologise la Physique.

Anaxagoras and the rhetoric of Plato's middle dialogue theory of forms

Philosophy and Rhetoric, 1993

L'A. suggere que Platon s'est approprie des tropes de la physique d'Anaxagore et les ... more L'A. suggere que Platon s'est approprie des tropes de la physique d'Anaxagore et les a adaptes a un nouvel usage dans la philosophie. Au cours de cette tentative une problematique completement nouvelle a ete introduite dans la philosophie. En examinant cette transposition des tropes d'Anaxagore par Platon, l'A. demontre la capacite des textes a produire des matrices nouvelles de signification a partir de la creation ancienne des mots

Oikoumene, Ouranos, Ousia, and the Outside

Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 2001

Rootpressureprobeshavebeenwidelyemployedtomeasurethehydraulicpropertiesofroots fromvariousplantsi... more Rootpressureprobeshavebeenwidelyemployedtomeasurethehydraulicpropertiesofroots fromvariousplantsinthepasttwodecades.However,theyhavenotbeenusedonthewholerootsystemsof anygramineousseedling.Takingcornseedlingasmaterial,thefeasibilityofarootpressureprobedetermining hydraulic parameters of whole root systems was investigated in this study. Hydraulic conductivities of single root and root system grown hydroponically as well as soil-cultured corn seedlings were determined by root pressure probe, the values were 12.01×10-8 m s-1 MPa-1 , 10.88×10-8 m s-1 MPa-1 and 8.56×10-8 m s-1 MPa-1 , respectively. The figures for the hydraulic conductivity of root systems grown under hydroponic culture and determined by pressure chamber (22.89×10-8 m s-1 MPa-1) were of the same order of magnitude. It was concluded that root pressure probes can be used to measure the hydraulic conductivity of corn seedling root systembyconnectingthemtothemesocotylratherthanthestem.

Jacques Derrida: The Double Liminality of a Philosophical Marrano

Religions, 2019

There is an analogy between two types of liminality: the geographic or cultural ‘outside’ space o... more There is an analogy between two types of liminality: the geographic or cultural ‘outside’ space of the Marrano Jew, alienated from his/her original religion and the one he or she has been forced to adopt, and, a philosophical position that is outside of both Athens and Jerusalem. Derrida finds and re-finds ‘h’ors- texte’, an ‘internal desert’, a ‘secret’ outside place: alien to both the western philosophical tradition and the Hebraic archive. In this liminal space he questions the otherness of the French language to which he was acculturated, and, in a turn to a less discursive modality, autobiography, finds, in the words of Helene Cixous, “the Jew-who-doesn’t know-that-he-is”. Derrida’s galut (exile) is neither Hebrew nor Greek. It is a private place outside of all discourse, which he claims, is inevitably ethnocentric. In inhabiting this outside space, he exercises the prerogative of a Marrano, equipped to critique the French language of his acculturation and the western philosoph...

Proclus on the Psychê

by Emilie Kutash and John Finamore

Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory

The Ten Gifts of the Demiurge : Proclus’ Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus

Proclus' commentary on Plato's "Timaeus" is perhaps the most important survivin... more Proclus' commentary on Plato's "Timaeus" is perhaps the most important surviving Neoplatonic commentary. In it Proclus contemplates nature's mysterious origins and at the same time employs the deductive rigour required to address perennial philosophical questions. Nature, for him, is both divine and mathematically transparent. He renders theories of Time, Eternity, Providence, Evil, Soul and Intellect and constructs an elaborate ontology that includes mathematics and astronomy. He gives ample play to pagan theology too, frequently lapsing into the arcane language of the "Chaldaean Oracles". "Ten Gifts of the Demiurge" is an essential companion to this rich but complex and densely wrought text, providing an analysis of its arguments and showing that it, like the cosmos Proclus reveres, is a living coherent whole. The book provides aides to understanding Proclus' work within the complex background of Neoplatonic philosophy, familiarising the reader with the political context of the Athenian school, analysing Proclus' key terminology, and giving background to the philosophical arguments and ancient sciences upon which Proclus draws. Above all, it helps the reader appreciate the varicoloured light that Proclus sheds on the secrets of nature.

Richard D. Mohr and Barbara Sattler, eds. , One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato’s Timaeus Today . Reviewed by

... Barbara Sattler takes on the issue of how the model to which the Demiurge looks for guidance,... more

Myth, Allegory and Inspired Symbolism in Early and Late Antique Platonism

The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, 2020

The idea that mythos and logos are incompatible, and that truth is a product of scientific and di... more The idea that mythos and logos are incompatible, and that truth is a product of scientific and dialectical thinking, was certainly disproven by later Platonic philosophers. Deploying the works of Hesiod and Homer, Homeric Hymns and other such literature, they considered myth a valuable and significant augment to philosophical discourse. Plato’s denigration of myth gave his followers an incentive to read myth as allegory. The Stoics and first-century philosophers such as Philo, treated allegory as a legitimate interpretive strategy. The Middle Platonists incorporated myth, for example, deifying the Monad and Dyad, as did 2nd century Platonists. Plutarch’s Isis and Osiris (2nd century CE), for example, equates Isis and Osiris with form and matter: the god (Osiris) sows in matter (Isis) logoi (forms or ideas) from himself (De Iside. 372F). Porphyry’s allegorizing of Plato’s Cave of the Nymphs is another example. Plotinus is a strong influence on how the late Neoplatonists regarded myth...

Proclus on the Psychê

by Emilie Kutash and John Finamore

All From One, 2016

Eternal Time and Temporal Expansion: Proclus’ Golden Ratio

Late Antique Epistemology, 2009

PROCLUS. S. Gersh (ed.) Interpreting Proclus. From Antiquity to the Renaissance. Pp. x + 409. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Cased, £70, US$110. ISBN: 978-0-521-19849-3

The Classical Review, 2015

The Tropics of Phaedo

The American Journal of Semiotics, 1991

DIVINATION IN LATE ANTIQUITY. C. Addey Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism. Oracles of the Gods. Pp. xvi + 335. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. Cased, £75. ISBN: 978-1-4094-5152-5

The Classical Review, 2016

What did Plato read?

Plato Journal

GODDESSES IN MYTH AND CULTURAL MEMORY GODDESSES IN MYTH AND CULTURAL MEMORY

Bloomsbury Press, 2021

Contents Preface viii Acknowledgments x 1 Introduction: “To Whom Death Never Comes” 1 2 Goddess ... more Contents
Preface viii
Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction: “To Whom Death Never Comes” 1
2 Goddess Prototypes: The Classical Literature 17
3 The Goddesses of Philosophy: The Literature of Later Antiquity 37
4 Virgin, Erotic Temptress, Mother and Cosmic Womb 53
5 Dualism and the Mediating Goddess 73
6 “The Goddess of the Triple Ways”: Triads and Trinities 89
7 Naming the Goddess: Geopolitics and the Intertranslation of Names 107
8 Asherah, Sophia, Shekhinah: Are They Hebrew Goddesses? 123
9 Did Christianity Make the Goddess Disappear? 139
10 Personifying Nature and Wisdom: The Medieval and Early Modern Goddess 155
11 New Mythologies of Gender: Feminists, Psychoanalysts, Epistemologists 171
12 The Goddess Interpreted 189
Notes 196
Select Bibliography 225
Index 232
9780567697394_

Derrida Persecution and the Art of Writing in Traces (5)

This is a paper that I was invited to give in September, 2019 in a conference sponsored by the In... more