Deleuze, a Stoic Contributor(s): Johnson, Ryan J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474462154 ISBN-13: 9781474462150 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Philosophy | Individual Philosophers - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" L (1.35 lbs) 320 pages |
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Publisher Description: Deleuze dramatises the story of ancient philosophy as a rivalry of four types of thinkers: the subverting pre-Socratics, the ascending Plato, the interiorising Aristotle and the perverting Stoics. Deleuze assigns the Stoics a privileged place because they introduced a new orientation for thinking and living that turns the whole story of philosophy inside out. Ryan Johnson reveals Deleuze's provocative reading of ancient Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas. For Deleuze, the Stoics were innovators of an entire system of philosophy which they structured like an egg. Johnson structures his book in this way: Part I looks at physics (the yolk), Part II is logic (the shell) and Part III covers ethics (the albumen). Including previously untranslated French Stoic scholarship, Johnson unearths new possibilities for bridging contemporary and ancient philosophy. |
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