Format:
1 Online-Ressource (352 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9781474431194
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 A Thousand Antiquities -- Part I Plato -- 2 The Muses and Philosophy: Elements for a History of the Pseudos [1991] -- 3 Odysseus' Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er -- 4 Plato's Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education -- Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato -- 6 "Adjust Your Dread": Badiou's Metaphysical Disposition -- Part II Aristotle -- 7 Science Regained [1962] -- 8 Aristotle's Organism, and Ours -- 9 Does It Matter? Material Nature and Vital Heat in Aristotle's Biology -- 10 The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi's Search for Truth against Nihilism -- 11 Diverging Ways: On the Trajectories of Ontology in Parmenides, Aristotle, and Deleuze -- 12 Object and Οὐσία: Harman and Aristotle on the Being of Things -- Part III Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and Neo-Platonists -- 13 Lucretius and Naturalism [1961] -- 14 On Causality and Law in Lucretius and Contemporary Cosmology -- 15 On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism Encounter -- 16 Contingency and Skepticism in Agamben's Thought -- 17 Plotinus' "Reverse" Platonism: A Deleuzian Response to the Problem of Emanation Imagery -- Part IV Postscript -- 18 From Metaphysics to Ethics (with Bernard Stiegler, Heraclitus, and Aristotle) -- Index adunamia
Content:
18 essays breathe new life into the classic problems of ancient metaphysics using contemporary continental materialisms and realismsIn this volume, leading philosophers address the varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and antique thought. They reconceive and redeploy the problems of ancient metaphysics: one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the world itself. Alongside these essays are three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.Key Features15 original essays and three previously untranslated articles on topics of ancient physics and metaphysics by some of the leading contemporary philosophers and scholarsProvides a space for the burgeoning continental materialist, realist and metaphysical readings of ancient philosophical problems and texts Contributors include Catherine Malabou, Walter Brogan, Iain Hamilton Grant and Ronald Polansky"
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781474412094
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9781474412094
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781474431194