Abstract

Within this dissertation, entitled Erotic Embodied Rationality, I attempt to reflect upon the division in the history of western philosophy between the mind and the body. With both ethical and epistemological considerations as guiding concerns, this work attempts to advance new readings of Plato and Nietzsche within an explicitly erotic embodied framework. By attending to arguments proffered from contemporary feminists, critical scholarship in ancient philosophy, as well as from various sources throughout the western philosophical tradition itself, this dissertation responds to the failing biases of an exclusively rationalist approach to epistemological and ethical matters