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

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Benjamin, Andrew E.
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Place, commonality and judgment
Published
London ; New York : Continuum, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (186 pages).
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Language Note
English.
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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ISBN
9781441194336 (electronic bk.)
1441194339 (electronic bk.)
9781472547316 (online)
1472547314
9781441138774 (electronic book)
1441138773 (electronic book)
1282948075
9781282948075
9786612948077
6612948078
9781441176806
1441176802
9781441112873 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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