Karatani Kojin Karatani

Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy-published originally in Japanese and now available in four languages-Kojin Karatani questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey. Contrasting Athenian democracy with Ionian isonomia-a system based on non-rule and a lack of social divisions whereby equality is realized through the freedom to immigrate-Karatani shows how early Greek thinkers from Heraclitus to Pythagoras were inseparably linked to the isonomia of their Ionian origins, not democracy. He finds in isonomia a model for how an egalitarian society not driven by class antagonism might be put into practice, and resituates Socrates's work and that of his intellectual heirs as the last philosophical attempts to practice isonomia's utopic potentials. Karatani subtly interrogates the democratic commitments of Western philosophy from within and argues that the key to transcending their contradictions lies not in Athenian democracy, with its echoes of imperialism, slavery, and exclusion, but in the openness of isonomia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372714
• Artikelnr.: 54789245

Autorenporträt

Kojin Karatani

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Note  vii
Map  viii
Author's Preface to the Japanese Edition  ix
Introduction
Universal Religion  1
Ethical Prophets   5
Exemplary Prophets  7
1. Ionian Society and Thought
Athens and Ionia  11
Isonomia and Democracy  14
Athenian Democracy  17
State and Democracy  20
Colonization and Isonomia  22
Iceland and North America  26
Isonomia and Council  31
2, The Background of Ionian Natural Philosophy
Natural Philosophy and Ethics  35
Hippocrates  39
Herodotus  42
Homer  46
Hesiod  51
3. The Essential Points of Ionian Natural Philosophy
The Critique of Religion  56
Self-Moving Matter  58
Poiesis and Becoming  62
4. Post-Ionian Thought
Pythagoras  68
Heraclitus  80
Parmenides  87
Post-Eliatics  96
5. Socrates and Empire
The Athenian Empire and Democracy  103
Sophists and Rule by Rhetoric  107
The Trial of Socrates  110
The Riddle of Socrates  114
Daimon  118
The Socratic Method  121
Plato and Pythagoras  125
The Philosopher-King  127
Isonomia and the Philosopher-King  130
Appendix. From Structure of World History to Isonomia and the Origins of
Philosophy  135
Timeline of the Ancient World  141
Notes  143
Bibliography  155
Index  159