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Theaetetus

The Aviary Project

My posts on Martin Heidegger’s commentary on Plato’s Theaetetus

  1. Introduction: The Theaetetus
  2. Socrates’ Question
  3. The First Answer
  4. The Role of the Body
  5. The Soul
  6. Soul and Body
  7. The Excess
  8. Striving for the Excess
  9. The Excess Expanded
  10. The Excess Reversed
  11. The Learning of Being
  12. The First Answer Refuted
  13. The Second Answer
  14. What is Doxa?
  15. The Falsity of Doxa
  16. The Confusion of Doxa
  17. Doxa’s View of Nothing
  18. Doxa as Substitution
  19. The Three Perspectives Retracted
  20. What Lies Between
  21. The Simile of the Wax Mass
  22. The Simile of the Aviary
  23. Doxa and Pseudos
  24. Plato’s Failure
The Aviary

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Letters from the 20th Century on Substack
Detailed commentaries on key twentieth century thinkers and artists, including Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sigmar Polke.
Introduction

Gilles Deleuze on Structuralism
1. A question of recognition
2. The symbolic
3. Examples, examples
4. From the symbolic to the real
5. A detour towards Bergson, recognition and memory
6. Bergson on inattentive recognition and memory
7. Henri Bergson on failing to recognise the past
Heidegger and Deleuze on Plato
Part 1: Defining the simulacrum
Part 2: Defining the sophist
Jacques Derrida's Given Time
Part 1: The paradox of the gift
Part 2: Foreword and Epigraph
Part 3: The impossibility of the gift
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