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    The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought by Chad Jorgensen (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (2): 340-341. 2019.
    Binaries are bad: false, distorting, hierarchical—or worse. This postmodern axiom has been widely accepted in scholarship and culture, and Plato is frequently blamed for promulgating some of the most enduring binaries of thought: being and becoming, truth and illusion, and, not least, body and soul. In this book, Chad Jorgensen argues for a more integrated picture of body and soul in Plato's later dialogues than Neoplatonism has left us, especially via the doctrine of separation as seen in Phaed…Read more
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    "We Are the Disease": Truth, Health, and Politics from Plato's Gorgias to Foucault
    Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (2): 287-310. 2014.
    Starting from the importance of the figure of the parrhesiastes—the political and therapeutic truth-teller—for Foucault’s understanding of the care of the self, this paper traces the political figuration of the analogy between philosophers and physicians on the one hand, and rhetors and disease on the other in Plato’s Gorgias. I show how rhetoric, in the form of ventriloquism, infects the text itself, and then ask how we account for the effect of the “contaminated” philosophical dialogue on our …Read more