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The emergence of reflexivity in Greek language and thought : from Homer to Plato and beyond / Edward T. Jeremiah

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Jeremiah, Edward T.
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Leiden : BRILL, 2012.
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1 online resource (316 pages).
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English.
Contents
Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes; Sigla; Introduction; 1. Thought And Language; 1. The Controversy of Homeric Psychology; 2. Pronouns Constructing Identity; 3. Grammaticalisation; 4. Semantic Motivation in the Shift to Heavy Pronominal Reflexivity; 5. The Transcendental Self Generated by Pronominal Reflexivity; 2. Homer; 1. Typology of Homeric Reflexives; 2. Semantics of autos in Homer; 3. The Idea of Psyche and Its Connection to the Reflexive; 4. Conclusions; 3. Early Lyric, Iambus And Elegy; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Complex Reflexives in Early Poetry., 3. Simple autos As Reflexive (Theognis and Pindar)4. Conclusions; 4. The Presocratics; 1. Introduction; 2. Heraclitus; 3. The Cosmology/Ontology of Parmenides and Anaxagoras; 4. Antiphon the Sophist; 5. Democritus; 6. The Roots of Reflexive Archai in the Presocratics and Their Legacy; 7. The Gnomic Tradition; 8. Conclusions; 5. Conscience And The Reflexivisation Of Sunoida; 6. Tragedy And Comedy; 1. Introduction; 2. Tragedy; 3. Comedy; 4. Conclusions; 7. Plato; 1. Preliminaries; 2. The Being of the In-Itself; 3. Building a Reflexive Subject; 4. The Reflexivity of Macrocosmic Beings., and 5. The Science of Science and Care of Self in Charmides and 1 Alcibiades6. The (Im)possibility of Holistic Reflexivity; 7. Conclusions; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index locorum; Index Nominum et Rerum.
Summary
Tying together linguistics, philology and philosophy, this monograph explores the morphological and semantic development of the heavily marked reflexive system in Ancient Greek and argues that these changes are connected to a reconceptualisation of the human subject as characteristically reflexive.
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9789004225152 (electronic bk.)
9004225153 (electronic bk.)
9004221956
9789004221956
9781280496479 (MyiLibrary)
1280496479 (MyiLibrary)
9789004225155 (e-book)
9786613591708
661359170X
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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