In this book, Anna Pagés tries to find the resonances of the female voice at the very core of philosophy, formulating a polyphonic program of issues with different tones and questions about femininity. In The Banquet, Plato describes the dinner in which several philosophers argue about the theme of Eros. Only one woman, Diotima of Mantinea, will be allowed to expose her thought, but not with her voice but through Socrates, the main speaker. Thus, Diotima is a silent suffocation within the text, the resonance of a philosophical thought that needs a spokesperson so that it can be heard. And Diotima is the starting point to crumble the theme of femininity beyond the cultural arguments of gender or the political claim of equal rights. Dining with Diotima aims to unleash the femininity of the typical picture in which the patriarchal tradition has framed it - defining it before giving it th...read more