Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics

ISBN-13: 9781474437424 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 352 str.

Abraham Jacob Greenstine; Ryan J. Johnson

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This volume of 18 essays shows how leading philosophers address the problems of ancient metaphysics: one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the world itself. Includes three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.

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Notes on Contributors; Introduction: 1. A Thousand Antiquities; I. Plato: 2. The Muses and Philosophy: Elements for a History of the “Pseudos” [1991]; 3. Odysseus’ Changed Soul: A contemporary reading of the Myth of Er; 4. Plato’s Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education; 5. Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato; 6. “Adjust your dread”: Badiou’s Metaphysical Disposition; II. Aristotle: 7. Science Regained [1962]; 8. Aristotle’s Organism, and Ours; 9. Does it Matter? Material Nature and Vital Heat in Aristotle’s Biology; 10. The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi's Search for Truth against Nihilism; 11. Diverging Ways: The Trajectories of Ontology in Parmenides, Aristotle, and Deleuze; 12. Object and Οὐσία: Harman and Aristotle on the Being of Things; III. Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and Neo-Platonists: 13. Lucretius and Naturalism [1961]; 14. On Causality and Law in Lucretius and Contemporary Cosmology; 15. On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism Encounter; 16. Contingency and Skepticism in Agamben’s Thought; 17. Plotinus’ “Reverse” Platonism: A Deleuzian Response to the Problem of Emanation Imagery; IV. Postscript: 18. From Metaphysics to Ethics (with Bernard Stiegler, Heraclitus, and Aristotle).