In Place, Commonality and Judgment: Continental Philosophy and the Ancient Greeks, Andrew Benjamin continues his careful work at the intersection of ontology, aesthetics, and politics... The broad outlines of Benjamin's argument are clear, but I have scarcely done justice to the rich complexity of this book. It is a tour de force of patient textual analysis in Greek, German, French, and English. Furthermore, Benjamin's book provides an alternative to two dominant readings of Greek thought in Continental philosophy, Derrida's and Agamben's.

- Notre Dame Philosophical Review,

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.
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Presents an examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought. This book aims to underscore the relevance of Ancient Philosophy for contemporary debates in Continental Philosophy. It also presents scholarship in the field of modern European thought.
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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: Holderlin's Das Hochste; 6. Possible Returns: Deconstruction and the Placing of Greek Philosophy; 7. Isocrates and Political Calculation; Bibliography; Index.
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A highly original examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought.
Offers a new interpretation of key concepts in Greek philosophy from within the perspective of Continental philosophy.
Now Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy; for up-to-date details of titles published after September 2012 and for a series description click here. Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy presents cutting-edge scholarship in the field of modern European thought. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from across the discipline.
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ISBN
9781441176806
Publisert
2011-02-14
Utgiver
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
192

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Biografisk notat

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash University, Australia. His previous publications include Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Northwestern UP, 2006), Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (Clinamen Press, 2004), Philosophy's Literature (Clinamen Press, 2001) and Present Hope: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Judaism (Routledge, 1997). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2005.