Place, commonality and judgment continental philosophy and the ancient Greeks Andrew Benjamin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benjamin, Andrew E., author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heraclitus, active 1st century.

Heraclitus.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Philosophy--Greece--History.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Staging the ground: place, commonality, and judgement

Commonality and human being: working through Heraclitus

Spacing as the shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben

Political translations: Hilderlin's das hichste

Placing speaking, notes on the first stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone

Possible returns: deconstruction and the placing of Greek philosophy

The inoperative Jew, Agamben's Paul

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

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-183) and index

ISBN:

1-4725-4731-4

1-282-94807-5

9786612948077

1-4411-9433-9

OCLC:

699475254