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

By Andrew Benjamin

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2011
ISBN
1441176802, 9781441176806
Google Books ID
lW4xwfBJvBEC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
640 kB (654997 bytes)
Series
Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Pages
vi+186\193
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-12-20 17:55:19

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.

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