Jennifer R Rapp: 1 book
Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored
Reading Plato’s Phaedrus and Writing the Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Rapp begins with a question posed by the poet Theodore Roethke: “Should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?” Through her examination of Plato’s Phaedrus and her insights about the place of forgetting in a life, Rapp answers Roethke’s query with a resounding Yes. In so doing,...
