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

The value of Kirkland’s study is in drawing out implications in Aristotle’s philosophy that can elude modern predilections, and that exceed the typically measured style of Aristotle’s writings. In other words, Kirkland’s account is true to Aristotle’s thought but distinctive in finding a vitality subliminal in the texts themselves and missed by much standard commentary.