Place, Commonality and Judgment: Continental Philosophy and the Ancient Greeks

by Andrew Benjamin

Overview

A highly original examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441112873
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/22/2012
Series:	Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics at Monash University, Australia. His previous publications include: Writing Art and Architecture(Re:press, 2010) Of Jews and Animals (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance (Northwestern UP, 2006), Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (Clinamen Press, 2004), Philosophy's Literature (Clinamen Press, 2001) and Present Hope: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Judaism (Routledge, 1997). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2005.

Table of Contents

1. Place, Commonality and Judgment
2. Commonality and Human Being: Working Through Heraclitus
3. Placing Speaking: Notes on the First Stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone
4. Spacing as the Shared Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben
5. Political Translations: Hölderlin's Das Höchste
6. Possible Returbans: Deconstruction and the Placing of Greek Philosophy
7. Isocrates and Political Calculation
Bibliography
Index