Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics /
18 essays breathe new life into the classic problems of ancient metaphysics using contemporary continental materialisms and realisms. In this volume, leading philosophers address the varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and antique thought. They reconceive and redeploy the prob...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.