Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474437427 ISBN 13: 9781474437424

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In this volume of 18 essays, 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 Alongside these essays are three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.

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About the Author

Abraham Jacob Greenstine is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University.

Ryan Johnson is Associate Professor of Philosophy Elon University and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Ryan is author of two monographs — Deleuze, A Stoic (Edinburgh UP, 2020) and The Deleuze Lucretius Encounter (Edinburgh UP, 2016) and several edited volumes, including Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics (Edinburgh UP, 2017) and Nietzsche & Epicurus (Bloomsbury 2020). He recently finished a co-written (with Biko Mandela Gray) monograph, Phenomenology of Black Spirit (forthcoming with Edinburgh UP), which stages a dialectical parallelism between Hegel's magnum opus and Black thinkers from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis. In between, Ryan is writing a fourth book, Three American Hegels, which explores the reception of Hegelianism by three seminal yet neglected American philosophers: Henry C. Brokmeyer, the forgotten first English translator of Hegel's Wissenschaft der Logik; Horace Williams, the first philosophy professor at the first U.S. public university, UNC-Chapel Hill; and John William Miller, the influential teacher of the metaphysics of democratic acts. Ryan is also completing a co-editing another volume entitled Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice (Edinburgh University Press). Finally, Ryan is bringing to completion several articles on themes such as Hegel and lynching, Nietzsche and James Baldwin, and historical exclusion in philosophy and musicology, as well as translating a book of French philosophy by Émile Bréhier and serving as the co-editor of a journal issue of Studies in Pedagogy on the theme of "Teaching Philosophy as a Way of Life."

From the Back Cover

‘No philosophy can stand the test of time without being measured against the ancient classics of our discipline. In Greenstine and Johnson’s new collection, the giants of Greece take the stage with some of our most prominent contemporary thinkers, with key appearances from figures as early as Parmenides and as late as Agamben, Malabou, Stiegler and Speculative Realism. I found myself quickly engrossed in these essays, and was sorry to reach the end of the volume.’Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture (on leave from the American University in Cairo)‘This volume is an ambitious experiment in doing the history of ancient philosophy as the practice of thought on the rich terrain of contemporary metaphysics. Bringing together an impressive international roster of rising stars and established scholars, it stakes out Greek philosophy as a vital resource for thinking beyond the parameters of the present. It should quickly become a classic.’Brooke Holmes, Princeton UniversityContemporary continental materialisms and realisms bring new life into the classic problems of ancient metaphysicsLike the ancient inquiries into the nature of things, contemporary continental realisms and materialisms, from Deleuze to the Speculative Realists, are driven to investigate beings, without subordinating this drive to the analyses 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, the divine and the world itself. The contemporary re-emergence of these metaphysical problems is linked to a return to the texts and figures of the classical Greco-Roman world.In this volume, leading philosophers address these varied, volatile and novel encounters between the contemporary and the antique. They contribute to reconceiving and redeploying the problems of ancient metaphysics. Alongside these essays are three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.Abraham Jacob Greenstine is a Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Philosophy at Duquesne University and the Institut für Philosophie at Universität Kassel. Ryan J. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Elon University.Cover image: painted Greek ornaments from the temples and tombs in Greece and Sicily from The Grammar of Ornament the Grammar of Ornament, Owen Jones, 1856. Courtesy of the Art & Architecture Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-1209-4Barcode

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474437427
• ISBN 13: 9781474437424
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Greenstine Abraham Jacob, Johnson Ryan J.