Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice / / ed. by Dave Mesing, Abraham Jacob Greenstone, Ryan J. Johnson
| Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice / / ed. by Dave Mesing, Abraham Jacob Greenstone, Ryan J. Johnson |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2025] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) : 15 black and white illustrations, 89 colour illustrations |
| Disciplina | 909.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - Ancient influences
Philosophy, Ancient PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical |
| ISBN |
9781399505338
1399505335 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Antiquity for Life -- PART I. ENCOUNTERING ANCIENT PRACTICE -- 1. Situations -- 1 The Cosmology of Prudence -- 2 The Pleasures of the Problem: Path, Decision and Annulment in Parmenides and Badiou -- 3 The Strangeness of Reflexivity -- 4 The Stoic Toolbox for Ethical Mathematics: Stoic Ethics and Moral Calculation Rules -- 2. Conjunctions -- 5 Plato’s Lysis: The Dilemma of Friendship and Love -- 6 Aristotle on the Praxis of Life -- 7 Theory and Politics in Plato’s Republic -- 8 Aristophanic Comedy and Its Democratic Permutations: Fidelity in Spirit? Or in Content and Form? -- PART II. PRACTICES OF ENCOUNTERING ANTIQUITY -- 3. Fragments -- 9 Forms of Memory -- 10 Anthropocene Fragments: A Sapphic Thought Collage -- 11 Exiles and Deserts -- 12 Black Dionysus -- 4. Accumulations -- 13 Photographing with the Muses -- 14 How to Read the Nature of Things -- 15 Eternal Recurrence and a History of Racism -- 16 On Lucretius -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910908699803321 |
| Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2025] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice / / ed. by Dave Mesing, Abraham Jacob Greenstone, Ryan J. Johnson
| Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice / / ed. by Dave Mesing, Abraham Jacob Greenstone, Ryan J. Johnson |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2025] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) : 15 black and white illustrations, 89 colour illustrations |
| Disciplina | 909.8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - Ancient influences
Philosophy, Ancient PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical |
| ISBN |
9781399505338
1399505335 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Antiquity for Life -- PART I. ENCOUNTERING ANCIENT PRACTICE -- 1. Situations -- 1 The Cosmology of Prudence -- 2 The Pleasures of the Problem: Path, Decision and Annulment in Parmenides and Badiou -- 3 The Strangeness of Reflexivity -- 4 The Stoic Toolbox for Ethical Mathematics: Stoic Ethics and Moral Calculation Rules -- 2. Conjunctions -- 5 Plato’s Lysis: The Dilemma of Friendship and Love -- 6 Aristotle on the Praxis of Life -- 7 Theory and Politics in Plato’s Republic -- 8 Aristophanic Comedy and Its Democratic Permutations: Fidelity in Spirit? Or in Content and Form? -- PART II. PRACTICES OF ENCOUNTERING ANTIQUITY -- 3. Fragments -- 9 Forms of Memory -- 10 Anthropocene Fragments: A Sapphic Thought Collage -- 11 Exiles and Deserts -- 12 Black Dionysus -- 4. Accumulations -- 13 Photographing with the Muses -- 14 How to Read the Nature of Things -- 15 Eternal Recurrence and a History of Racism -- 16 On Lucretius -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996639671603316 |
| Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2025] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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