What may be most important, however, is the success Foucault has had as a catalyst. The reaction to and debate over The History of Sexuality is ongoing and rich". 4 Thucydides' digressions have been explicated in detail by Pothou 2009. For the moralizing tendency of digressions in classical and hellenistic historiography-and a useful schema of the motivations for such discursions-see Hau 2016, 9-11. For an analysis of the digression in Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, see Spada 2008.
However, precisely because Plato did not yet have at his disposition the constituted categories of representation (these appeared with Aristotle), he had to base his decision on a theory of Ideas. What appears then, in its purest state, before the logic of representation could be deployed, is a moral vision of the world. It is in the first instance for these moral reasons that simulacra must be exorcized and difference thereby subordinated to the same and the similar. For this reason, however, because Plato makes the decision, and because with him the victory is not assured as it will be in the established world of representation, the rumbling of the enemy can still be heard. Insinuated throughout the Platonic cosmos, difference resists its yoke. Heraclitus and the Sophists make an infernal racket. It is as though there were a strange double which dogs Socrates’ footsteps and haunts even Plato's style, inserting itself into the repetitions and variations of that style.
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