Luc Brisson Livres

Les lettres présentent, par rapport au reste de l'œuvre de Platon, un double intérêt : là seulement le philosophe parle à la première personne, là seulement il se décrit en action. Les Lettres nous présentent un autre Platon que celui des dialogues, celui qui, tout jeune homme, veut jouer un rôle politique à Athènes et qui, plus tard, cherche à réaliser à Syracuse les projets politiques qu'on trouve exposés d'abord dans la République, puis dans le Politique et dans les Lois. Par là, Platon ouvre une tradition qui se maintiendra après lui, comme en font foi, entre autres, les exemples de Descartes auprès de Christine de Suède, de Voltaire auprès de Frédéric II de Prusse ou de Diderot auprès de Catherine II de Russie : celui du philosophe conseiller du chef d'Etat.

Plato's theory of erôs is, along with the theory of intelligible forms, one of the cornerstones of the philosophy of dialogues. Recent studies on gender and sexuality in Antiquity have shed a new light on specific elements of Platonic erôs, and this volume aims at deepening our understanding of erôs within the moral and political context of the platonic city. Indeed, the Platonic erôs is not this intellectualized desire which we sometimes identify with the current expression 'platonic love'; it is a situated desire, within the body and soul of the person, and whose functioning and effects must be explained. This volume brings together twelve contributions devoted to the study of this Platonic erotic with the method of history of philosophy, comparative anthropology, psychoanalysis, studies on gender and sexuality in antiquity. The volume has three sections: 1) Orientations, 2) Norms, prescriptions, transgressions, 3) Erotic community, political community, to account for the complexity of Platonic erotics and its link with the city as it is or should be instituted. With the contributions of Carolina Araújo, Ruby Blondell and Sandra Boehringer, Luc Brisson, Claude Calame, Louis-André Dorion, David Halperin, Annick Larivée, Juan Pablo Lucchelli, Paul Ludwig, Olivier Renaut and Klaus Schöpsdau. Book's language is French.

This fourth edition includes a Bibliographical Supplement extending previous editions up to 2015 and offers a comprehensive interpretation of the Timaeus, considering historical perspectives. In this work, Plato embarks on a dual mission: he adheres to tradition by narrating the world's origin akin to Hesiod while also presenting a cosmological model grounded in mathematics, positioning himself as a precursor to Galileo. His narrative shifts from a focus on divine succession through sexual union to a portrayal of the universe as crafted by an artist. Plato employs advanced mathematical concepts rather than ordinary language, as Aristotle would later do, to describe the surrounding world. This systematic commentary dedicates a chapter to themes such as the demiurge, intelligible forms, spatial environment, world soul, world body, man, and necessity. Each chapter explores various interpretations from Antiquity, including those from the Old Academy, Middle Platonism, and Neoplatonism. These interpretations, shaped by differing concerns, are numerous yet not infinite, and they influence modern interpretations, either explicitly or implicitly.

In this text, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. He also contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech which he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. schovat popis

Describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. This study reveals how philosophers employed allegory and how it enabled myth to take on a number of different interpretive systems throughout the centuries: moral, physical, psychological, political, and even metaphysical.