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Author Benjamin, Andrew E.

Title Place, commonality and judgement : continental philosophy and the ancient Greeks / Andrew Benjamin.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Continuum, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (186 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Continuum studies in continental philosophy
Continuum studies in continental philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Staging the ground: place, commonality, and judgement -- Commonality and human being: working through Heraclitus -- Spacing as the shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben -- Political translations: Hilderlin's das hichste -- Placing speaking, notes on the first stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone -- Possible returns: deconstruction and the placing of Greek philosophy -- The inoperative Jew, Agamben's Paul.
Summary 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 int.
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Subject Heraclitus, active 1st century.
Heraclitus, active 1st century.
Heraclitus, active 1st century.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy -- Greece -- History.
Philosophy.
Greece.
History.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1950-2010.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Place, commonality and judgment
Other Form: Print version: Benjamin, Andrew E. Place, commonality and judgement. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2010 9781441176806 (DLC) 2010016798 (OCoLC)496962129
ISBN 9781441194336 (electronic book)
1441194339 (electronic book)
9781441176806
1441176802