Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 30 June 2026
- ISBN 9781399505321
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 black and white illustrations, 89 colour illustrations 700
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Short description:
Continental philosophers and contemporary artists transform the classics into living practices.
MoreLong description:
This volume collects written and visual works that engage with opportunities of ancient practice from within the continental tradition. More than surveying ancient ethical or political ideas, the chapters develop divergent yet resonant approaches to concrete ways of living, acting, reflecting and being with others found in antiquity and its reception. The practices involve the habits, exercises, activities, philosophies and lives of today’s readers; and so most chapters encourage the reader to do something, to put the ideas into practice. Withstanding a temptation to simply theorise practice, it insists on the embodied and shared materiality of living in singular times and places. The practical encounters between this book and its readers range across antiquity and the contemporary world, from political theatre, casuistry and slavery to book production, friendship and our own mortality. Through thinker–practitioner collaborations, occasional pieces, exhortations to readers and recipes for action, this book strives to articulate and cultivate old and new practices for our lives.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Antiquity for Life
Part I. Encountering Ancient Practice
1. Situations
1. The Cosmology of Prudence/Cosmologie de la prudence
Pierre Aubenque, translated by Cameron F. Coates and Khafiz Kerimov
2. The Pleasures of the Problem: Parmenides, Badiou, and Mathematics
Becky Vartabedian
3. Foucault, Plato, Aristotle, and the Strangeness of Reflexivity
Frederique Ildefonse
4. Stoicism and a Matter of Conscience
Christelle Veillard
2. Conjunctions
5. Plato’s Lysis: The Dilemma of Friendship and Love
Pierre Macherey, translated by David Maruzzella
6. Aristotle on the Practice of Life
Sara Brill
7. Theory and Politics in Plato’s Republic
Adriana Caverero, translated by Paula Landerreche Cardillo
8. Aristophanic Comedy and Its Democratic Permutations: Fidelity in Spirit? Or in Content and Form?
Michael Weinman
Part II. Practices of Encountering Antiquity
3. Fragments
9. Forms of Memory
Vlad Basarab
10. Sapphic Foucault: Fragments of an Anthropocene Archive
Lynne Huffer
11. Exiles and Deserts
Casey Ford
12. Black Dionysius
Andrés Fabián Henao Castro
4. Accumulations
13. Photographing (with) the Muses
Lauren Guilmette and Rob Leib
14. How to Read the Nature of Things
Thomas Nail
15. Eternal Recurrence and Racist Histories
Ryan J. Johnson (in collaboration with Keshia Wall)
16. On Lucretius
Brooke Holmes & Isabel Lewis
