Susan Buck-Morss

Year 1 (eBook, ePUB)

A Philosophical Recounting

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Produktbeschreibung

Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the past to speak to us in another way. Conventional readings of antiquity cast Athens against Jerusalem, with Athens standing in for "reason" and Jerusalem for "faith." And yet, Susan Buck-Morss reminds us, recent scholarship has overturned this separation. Naming the first century--"year one"--as a zero point that divides time into before and after is merely a retroactive numbering plan, nothing more than a convenience that is empirically meaningless. In YEAR 1, Buck-Morss liberates the past so it can speak to us in another way, reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262362719
• Artikelnr.: 59187790

Autorenporträt

Susan Buck-Morss is Distinguished Professor of Political Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center and Jan Rock Zubrow Professor Emerita of Government at Cornell University. She is the author of Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press) and other books.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction vii
1. COUNTING TIME, CHARTING SPACE 1
2. TRANSLATIONS IN TIME: ON FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS 29
3. HISTORY AND METAPHYSICS: ON PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA 75
4. HISTORY AND IDENTITY: ON JOHN OF PATMOS 123
5. CONSTELLATIONS 163
I. Historical Particularity and Philosophical Universality 165
II. Apocalypse Is Not Our Present 182
III. Woman on the Margins 200
IV. History and Truth 216
Notes 231
Bibliography 367
Index 391