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The Emergence of Reflexivity in Greek Language and Thought
From Homer to Plato and Beyond
Series: - Philosophia Antiqua, Volume: 129
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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 αὐτός, 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.
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.
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In summary, for its sensitivity to the historically-bound phenomenon of self-reference, its judicious selection of apposite texts, and enlivening discussion of canonical philosophical questions in a sharply informed communicative and cultural context, I anticipate returning often to this book"
Christopher Moore in BMCR, 26.2.2013
Christopher Moore in BMCR, 26.2.2013
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.