Aristotle and Tragic Temporality

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Sean D. Kirkland

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Aristotle and Tragic Temporality treats a theme that has drawn scholarly attention for millennia: Aristotle on time and our experience of it. It does so, however, in a wholly unprecedented way, grounding its interpretation in his Poetics and Ethics, rather than the natural philosophy of the Physics. Sean D. Kirkland first takes up Aristotle's discussion of our tragic temporal situatedness—our having to act, think, and live always between a determining past we can never fully master and a projected future we can never fully anticipate. It is this condition that comes powerfully to light for Aristotle on stage in the performance of a tragic drama. The familiar Aristotelian ‘virtue ethics’ then becomes something radically new in the transforming light of the Poetics’ temporality - an outline of how humans can inhabit that irremediably tragic condition, never overcoming or suspending it, and arrive nonetheless at something like happiness and excellence.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCycles
Antal sidor264
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399536462

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Sean D. Kirkland is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and serves as the Co-Director of DePaul's Institute for Nature and Culture. He specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, as well as 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. He is the author of Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle (Northwestern, 2023) and The Ontology of Socratic Questioning (SUNY, 2012), as well as co-editor of A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Northwestern, 2018) and The Returns of Antigone (SUNY, 2014).

Acknowledgements AbbreviationsAristotle Texts CitedIntroduction: An Ancient Metaphysics of Non-PresenceChapter I. Modern and Postmodern Philosophies of Time and Temporality 1. Modern Time as Either Objective or Subjective: Descartes, Newton, Kant, Husserl2. Modern Time Imposed on the Aristotelian Text3. Post-Modern Temporality: Husserl, Bergson, HeideggerChapter II. Aristotle’s Dialectic as Proto-Phenomenological Method 1. Endoxa, Phenomenality, and the Dialectical Path in the Topics2. Aristotle’s Criticisms of ‘Dialectic’3. Dialectic and the Natural Path in the Physics4. Phainomena and Legomena as Starting Points for DialecticChapter III. Staging Tragic Temporality in the Poetics 1. Seeing the Telos at the Moment of Genesis2. The Birth of Tragedy3. Tragic Theôria, Between Cognitivist and Non-Cognitivist Approaches4. Mimêsis, Manthanein, and Human Nature5. The Mimesis of Praxis as Complete, Whole, and of Some MagnitudeConclusionChapter IV. Living with Tragic Temporality in the Ethics 1. The Rational Foundation of Morality for Kant 2. Pierre Hadot and Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life3. Living Between the Past and Future Good4. On the Intellectualism of Ethics in Plato’s Dialogues5. The Temporality of Phronêsis 6. Past and Future as Sources of Ethical JudgmentConclusion: The Phenomenology of Chronos in Physics, Book IV.10-14BibliographyIndex

In Aristotle and Tragic Temporality, Sean D. Kirkland offers a fresh interpretation of Aristotle’s ethics following an unexpected but fruitful path through his Poetics and Physics. Taking aim at those who would too readily impute a metaphysics of presence and a modern division of subject and object to Aristotle, this book upsets now-canonical truisms of Aristotelian philosophy-- the reduced status of dialectic, time as objective or subjective, the separation of epistemological and metaphysical principles—and affirms the fundamental importance of appearance for how we initially engage and understand the world. It is a book for scholars of Aristotle and it is a book for humans concerned to live and act in the face of an uncertain future.