ON THE THRESHOLD OF BEING, BEYOND DECEIPT (CONCERNING THE PROBLEM OF LANGUAGE IN PLATO)

Abstract

This article which begins by tracing the socratic opposition between orality and the written word, passing through the distance which runs from the wise man to the philosopher-writer concerned with the problems of the polis, demarcating the reflection on the act of seeing, and especially the ethical role of language for the formation of the Greek citizen, aims to reflect on the problem of language in Plato, recontextualizing the concept of imitation, particularly in The Repúblic. It the analyses briefly some of the repercussions of the platonic inheritance on the debate concerning the contemporary political and cultural critique,introducing as an alternative the dense and creative Philosophy of Difference practised especially by Gilles Deleuze and his proposal for the reversion of platonism.