Contemporary encounters with ancient metaphysics
Metaphysics Philosophy, Ancient
Edinburgh University Press
2017
EISBN 1474434967
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.
This volume of 18 essays shows how leading philosophers address the problems of ancient metaphysics - one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the world itself. It also includes 3 original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.
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.
This volume of 18 essays shows how leading philosophers address the problems of ancient metaphysics - one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the world itself. It also includes 3 original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.
