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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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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.
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Product details
Published | Dec 16 2010 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 192 |
ISBN | 9781441194336 |
Imprint | Continuum |
Series | Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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In Place, Commonality and Judgment: Continental Philosophy and the Ancient Greeks, Andrew Benjamin continues his careful work at the intersection of ontology, aesthetics, and politics... The broad outlines of Benjamin's argument are clear, but I have scarcely done justice to the rich complexity of this book. It is a tour de force of patient textual analysis in Greek, German, French, and English. Furthermore, Benjamin's book provides an alternative to two dominant readings of Greek thought in Continental philosophy, Derrida's and Agamben's.
Notre Dame Philosophical Review

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