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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785664003321

Autore

Benjamin Andrew E.

Titolo

Place, commonality and judgment : continental philosophy and the ancient Greeks / Andrew Benjamin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2010

ISBN

1-4725-4731-4

1-282-94807-5

9786612948077

1-4411-9433-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in continental philosophy

Classificazione

6,12

Disciplina

180

Soggetti

Philosophy, Ancient

Philosophy - Greece - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-183) and index

Nota di contenuto

Staging the ground: place, commonality, and judgement -- Commonality and human being: working through Heraclitus -- Spacing as the shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben -- Political translations: Hilderlin's das hichste -- Placing speaking, notes on the first stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone -- Possible returns: deconstruction and the placing of Greek philosophy -- The inoperative Jew, Agamben's Paul

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: Hölderlin's Das Höchste   -- 6. Possible Returns: Deconstruction and the Placing of Greek Philosophy -- 7. Isocrates and Political Calculation -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.