Contemporary encounters with ancient metaphysics / edited by Abraham Jacob Greenstine and Ryan J. Johnson.
18 essays breathe new life into the classic problems of ancient metaphysics using contemporary continental materialisms and realisms. In this volume, leading philosophers address the varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and antique thought. They reconceive and redeploy the prob...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Free online access: OAPEN.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | 18 essays breathe new life into the classic problems of ancient metaphysics using contemporary continental materialisms and realisms. 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 Alongside these essays are three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin. Key Features. 15 original essays and three previously untranslated articles on topics of ancient physics and metaphysics by some of the leading contemporary philosophers and scholars Provides a space for the burgeoning continental materialist, realist and metaphysical readings of ancient philosophical problems and texts |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 338 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474412100 1474412106 9781474412117 1474412114 9781474431194 1474431194 9781474434966 1474434967 9781474412094 |