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Place, Commonality and Judgment
Continental Philosophy and the Ancient Greeks
Place, Commonality and Judgment
Continental Philosophy and the Ancient Greeks
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In this important and highly original book, place, commonality and judgment provide the framework within which works central to the Greek philosophical and literary tradition are usefully located and reinterpreted.
Greek life, it can be argued, was defined by the interconnection of place, commonality and judgment. Similarly within the Continental philosophical tradition topics such as place, judgment, law and commonality have had a pervasive centrality. Works by Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben amongst others attest to the current exigency of these topics. Yet the ways in which they are interrelated has been barely discussed within the context of Ancient Philosophy. The conjecture of this book is that not only are these terms of genuine philosophical importance in their own right, but they are also central to Ancient Philosophy. Andrew Benjamin ultimately therefore aims to underscore the relevance of Ancient Philosophy for contemporary debates in Continental Philosophy.
Greek life, it can be argued, was defined by the interconnection of place, commonality and judgment. Similarly within the Continental philosophical tradition topics such as place, judgment, law and commonality have had a pervasive centrality. Works by Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben amongst others attest to the current exigency of these topics. Yet the ways in which they are interrelated has been barely discussed within the context of Ancient Philosophy. The conjecture of this book is that not only are these terms of genuine philosophical importance in their own right, but they are also central to Ancient Philosophy. Andrew Benjamin ultimately therefore aims to underscore the relevance of Ancient Philosophy for contemporary debates in Continental Philosophy.
Table of Contents
1. Place, Commonality and Judgment
2. Commonality and Human Being: Working Through Heraclitus
3. Placing Speaking: Notes on the First Stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone
4. Spacing as the Shared Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben
5. Political Translations: Hölderlin's Das Höchste
6. Possible Returns: Deconstruction and the Placing of Greek Philosophy
7. Isocrates and Political Calculation
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Product details
Published | Oct 22 2012 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 192 |
ISBN | 9781441112873 |
Imprint | Continuum |
Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
Series | Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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