Place, commonality, and judgement
Subtitle: continental philosophy and the ancient Greeks
By: Andrew Benjamin
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9781441176806
Subjects: Philosophy; Ancient Philosophy; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Staging the ground: place, commonality, and judgement; title: Commonality and human being: working through Heraclitus; title: Spacing as the shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben; title: Political translations: Hilderlin's das hichste; title: Placing speaking, notes on the first stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone; title: Possible returns: deconstruction and the placing of Greek philosophy; title: The inoperative Jew, Agamben's Paul.