Rhapsody of philosophy: dialogues with Plato in contemporary thought

A polemic introduction

Platonic theater : rigor and play in the Republic (Genette and Lacoue-Labarthe)

Le beau jeu : the play of beauty and truth in the Phaedrus (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida)

The notion of (re)semblance in the Sophist (Deleuze, Foucault, Nancy)

The abyssal ground of world and discourse in the Timaeus (Kristeva, Irigaray, Butler, Derrida)

Rhapsodic conclusion : "the dialogue that we are" in Plato, Heidegger, and Nancy.