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Form and event : principles for an interpretation of the Greek world / Carlo Diano ; translated by Timothy C. Campbell and Lia Turtas ; introduction by Jacques Lezra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diano, Carlo, author.
- Series:
- Commonalities.
- Commonalities
- Standardized Title:
- Forma ed evento. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Greece--Religion.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Carlo Diano's Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy. Already available in Italian, French, Spanish, and Greek, it appears here in English for the first time, with a substantial Introduction by Jacques Lezra that situates the book in the genealogy of modern political philosophy. Form and Event reads the two classical categories of its title phenomenologically across Aristotle, the Stoics, and especially Homer. By aligning Achilles with form and Odysseus with event, Diano links event to embodied and situated subjective experience that simultaneously finds its expression in a form that objectifies that experience. Form and event do not exist other than as abstractions for Diano but they do come together in an intermingling that Diano refers to as the "eventic form." On Diano's reading, eventic forms interweave subjectively situated and embodied experiences, observable in all domains of human and nonhuman life. A stunning interpretation of Greek antiquity that continues to resonate since its publication in 1952, Form and Event anticipates the work of such French and Italian post-war thinkers as Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Roberto Esposito, and Giorgio Agamben.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Form and Event
- Illustrations
- Notes
- Notes:
- Translation of: Forma ed evento : principi per una interpretazione del mondo greco.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-8794-7
- OCLC:
- 1159724241
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