Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics

This volume of 18 essays shows how leading philosophers address the problems of ancient metaphysics: one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the world itself. Includes three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Note on the Text
pp ix-x

Notes on Contributors
pp xi-xiv

1 - A Thousand Antiquities
pp 1-10

Part I - Plato
pp 11-12

2 - The Muses and Philosophy: Elements for a History of the Pseudos [1991]
pp 13-29

3 - Odysseus’ Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er
pp 30-46

4 - Plato’s Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education
pp 47-64

5 - Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato
pp 65-85

6 - “Adjust Your Dread”: Badiou’s Metaphysical Disposition
pp 86-116

Part II - Aristotle
pp 117-118

7 - Science Regained [1962]
pp 119-137

8 - Aristotle’s Organism, and Ours
pp 138-157

9 - Does It Matter? Material Nature and Vital Heat in Aristotle’s Biology
pp 158-179

10 - The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi’s Search for Truth against Nihilism
pp 180-201

11 - Diverging Ways: On the Trajectories of Ontology in Parmenides, Aristotle, and Deleuze
pp 202-223

12 - Object and Οὐσία: Harman and Aristotle on the Being of Things
pp 224-242

Part III - Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and Neo-Platonists
pp 243-244

13 - Lucretius and Naturalism [1961]
pp 245-253

14 - On Causality and Law in Lucretius and Contemporary Cosmology
pp 254-269

15 - On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism Encounter
pp 270-288

16 - Contingency and Skepticism in Agamben’s Thought
pp 289-304

17 - Plotinus’ “Reverse” Platonism: A Deleuzian Response to the Problem of Emanation Imagery
pp 305-320

Part IV - Postscript
pp 321-322

18 - From Metaphysics to Ethics (with Bernard Stiegler, Heraclitus, and Aristotle)
pp 323-330

Index
pp 331-338

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