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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790015203321

Autore

Jeremiah Edward T

Titolo

The emergence of reflexivity in Greek language and thought [[electronic resource] ] : from Homer to Plato and beyond / / by Edward T. Jeremiah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49647-9

9786613591708

90-04-22515-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

Philosophia antiqua, , 0079-1687 ; ; v. 129

Disciplina

485/.5

Soggetti

Greek language - Reflexives

Greek language - Style

Self (Philosophy) - Greece - History

Philosophy, Ancient

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 and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Thought and Language -- Homer -- Early Lyric, Iambus and Elegy -- The Presocratics -- Conscience and the Reflexivisation of σύυoιδα -- Tragedy and Comedy -- Plato -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Nominum et Rerum.

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary preoccupation with the self and the rise of comparative anthropology have renewed scholarly interest in the forms of personhood current in Ancient Greece. However the word which translates “self” most literally, the intensive adjective and reflexive morpheme αὐτός, and its critical role in the construction of human being have for the most part been neglected. This monograph rights the imbalance by redirecting attention to the diachronic development of the heavily marked reflexive system and its exploitation by thinkers to articulate an increasingly reflexive and non-dialogical understanding of the human subject and its world. It argues that these two developmental trajectories are connected and provides new insight into the intellectual history of subjectivity in the West.