Contemporary encounters with ancient metaphysics / edited by Abraham Jacob Greenstine and Ryan J. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenstine, Abraham Jacob, editor.

Johnson, Ryan J., editor.

JSTOR (Organization)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

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text file

Summary:

Contemporary continental materialisms and realism bring new life into the classic problems of ancient metaphysics, Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realisms and materialisms, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, are driven to investigate beings, without subordinating this drive to the analyses of language, consciousness, texts or the social. This pensée brute, traditionally blown as metaphysics, dares to question the one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the world itself. The contemporary re-emergence of these metaphysical problems is linked to a return to the texts and figures of the classical Greco-Roman world. In this volume, leading philosophers address these varied, volatile and novel encounters between the contemporary and the antique. They contribute to reconceiving and redeploying the problems of ancient metaphysics. Alongside these essays are three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 A Thousand Antiquities / Abraham Jacob Greenstine Greenstine, Abraham Jacob, Ryan J. Johnson Johnson, Ryan J. 1

Part I Plato

2 The Muses and Philosophy: Elements for a History of the Pseudos [1991] / Barbara Cassin Cassin, Barbara, Sam Galson Galson, Sam 13

3 Odysseus' Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er / Catherine Malabou Malabou, Catherine 30

4 Plato's Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education / Daniel Price Price, Daniel 47

5 Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato / John Bova Bova, John, Paul M. Livingston Livingston, Paul M. 65

6 "Adjust Your Dread": Badiou's Metaphysical Disposition / A. J. Bartlett Bartlett, A. J. 86

Part II Aristotle

7 Science Regained [1962] / Pierre Aubenque Aubenque, Pierre, Clayton Shoppa Shoppa, Clayton 119

8 Aristotle's Organism, and Ours / Emanuela Bianchi Bianchi, Emanuela 138

9 Does It Matter? Material Nature and Vital Heat in Aristotle's Biology / Adriel M. Trott Trott, Adriel M. 158

10 The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi's Search for Truth against Nihilism / David Hoinski Hoinski, David, Ronald Polansky Polansky, Ronald 180

11 Diverging Ways: On the Trajectories of Ontology in Parmenides, Aristotle, and Deleuze / Abraham Jacob Greenstine Greenstine, Abraham Jacob 202

12 Object and Ονσια: Harman and Aristotle on the Being of Things / Eric Salem Salem, Eric 224

Part III Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and Neo-Platonists

13 Lucretius and Naturalism [1961] / Gilles Deleuze Deleuze, Gilles, Jared C. Bly Bly, Jared C. 245

14 On Causality and Law in Lucretius and Contemporary Cosmology / David Webb Webb, David 254

15 On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism Encounter / Ryan J. Johnson Johnson, Ryan J. 270

16 Contingency and Skepticism in Agamben's Thought / Gert-Jan van der Heiden Heiden, Gert-Jan van der 289

17 Plotinus' "Reverse" Platonism: A Deleuzian Response to the Problem of Emanation Imagery / Gina Zavota Zavota, Gina 305

Part IV Postscript

18 From Metaphysics to Ethics (with Bernard Stiegler, Heraclitus, and Aristotle) / Kurt Lampe Lampe, Kurt 323.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781474412100

1474412106

Publisher Number:

40027070262

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