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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Greenstine, Abraham Jacob
• Johnson, Ryan J

Titel

Contemporary encounters with ancient metaphysics

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1 A Thousand Antiquities / Abraham Jacob Greenstine and Ryan J. Johnson -- Part I Plato -- 2 The Muses and Philosophy: Elements for a History of the Pseudos [1991] / Barbara Cassin, translated by Sam Galson -- 3 Odysseus' Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er / Catherine Malabou -- 4 Plato's Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education / Daniel Price -- 5 Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato / John Bova and Paul M. Livingston -- 6 "Adjust Your Dread": Badiou's Metaphysical Disposition / A.J. Bartlett -- Part II Aristotle -- 7 Science Regained [1962] / Pierre Aubenque, translated by Clayton Shoppa -- 8 Aristotle's Organism, and Ours / Emanuela Bianchi -- 9 Does It Matter? Material Nature and Vital Heat in Aristotle's Biology / Adriel M. Trott -- 10 The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi's Search for Truth against Nihilism / David Hoinski and Ronald Polansky -- 11 Diverging Ways: On the Trajectories of Ontology in Parmenides, Aristotle, and Deleuze / Abraham Jacob Greenstine -- 12 Object and Ousia : Harman and Aristotle on the Being of Things / Eric Salem -- Part III Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and Neo-Platonists -- 13 Lucretius and Naturalism [1961] / Gilles Deleuze, translated by Jared C. Bly -- 14 On Causality and Law in Lucretius and Contemporary Cosmology / David Webb -- 15 On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism Encounter / Ryan J. Johnson -- 16 Contingency and Skepticism in Agamben's Thought / Gert-Jan van der Heiden -- 17 Plotinus' "Reverse" Platonism: A Deleuzian Response to the Problem of Emanation Imagery / Gina Zavota -- Part IV Postscript -- 18 From Metaphysics to Ethics (with Bernard Stiegler, Heraclitus, and Aristotle) / Kurt Lampe
• Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to analyses of language, consciousness, texts or the social. This pensée brute, traditionally known as metaphysics, dares to question the one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial and the world itself. This apparent kinship is not merely thematic, since contemporary thinkers explicitly and repeatedly return to the texts and figures of the Greco-Roman world. In this volume, leading philosophers address these varied, volatile, and novel interactions and themselves contribute to reconceiving and redeploying the problems of ancient metaphysics. Alongside this are 2 original and previously unpublished translations of essays by Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Aubenque