Contemporary encounters with ancient metaphysics /
18 essays breathe new life into the classic problems of ancient metaphysics using contemporary continental materialisms and realism. In this volume, leading philosophers address the varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and antique thought. They reconceive and redeploy the probl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2017]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 18 essays breathe new life into the classic problems of ancient metaphysics using contemporary continental materialisms and realism. In this volume, leading philosophers address the varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and antique thought. They reconceive and redeploy the problems of ancient metaphysics: one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the world itself. Alongside these essays are three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin. Like the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realism and materialism, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, embraces a commitment to investigate beings, without subordinating it to analysis of language, consciousness, texts or the social. This pensée brute, traditionally known as metaphysics, dares to question the one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial and the world itself. This apparent kinship is not merely thematic, since contemporary thinkers explicitly and repeatedly return to the texts and figures of the Greco-Roman world. In this volume, leading philosophers address these varied, volatile, and novel interactions and themselves contribute to reconceiving and redeploying the problems of ancient metaphysics. Alongside this are 2 original and previously unpublished translations of essays by Gilles Deleuze and Pierre Aubenque. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119986966 (electronic bk.) 1119986966 (electronic bk.) |