The Emergence of Reflexivity in Greek Language and Thought

From Homer to Plato and Beyond
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22195-6
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill NV

Buch, Englisch, Greek, Modern (1453-), Band 129, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Philosophia Antiqua

Contemporary preoccupation with the self and the rise of comparative anthropology have renewed scholarly interest in the forms of personhood current in Ancient Greece. However the word which translates self most literally, the intensive adjective and reflexive morpheme, and its critical role in the construction of human being have for the most part been neglected. This monograph rights the imbalance by redirecting attention to the diachronic development of the heavily marked reflexive system and its exploitation by thinkers to articulate an increasingly reflexive and non-dialogical understanding of the human subject and its world. It argues that these two developmental trajectories are connected and provides new insight into the intellectual history of subjectivity in the West.

Zielgruppe

Those interested in ancient philosophy, the intellectual history of ideas of self and reflexive concepts, the Greek origins of subjectivity, the relationship between language and thought, classical philology, diachronic linguistics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jeremiah, Edward T.

Mortimer, Sarah

Robertson, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremiah, Edward T.
Edward T. Jeremiah, Ph.D. (2010) in Classics, The University of Melbourne, lectures and tutors in classics at Melbourne and Monash Universities. He is currently researching the linguistic and terminological features of the doxographical tradition as part of the Aëtiana project.