Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Note on the Text xi
6. Notes on Contributors xii
7. Introduction: The Use and Abuse of Antiquity for Life 1
8. PART I. ENCOUNTERING ANCIENT PRACTICE
9. 1. Situations
10. 1 The Cosmology of Prudence 13
11. 2 The Pleasures of the Problem: Path, Decision and Annulment in Parmenides and Badiou 52
12. 3 The Strangeness of Reflexivity 78
13. 4 The Stoic Toolbox for Ethical Mathematics: Stoic Ethics and Moral Calculation Rules 94
14. 2. Conjunctions
15. 5 Plato’s Lysis: The Dilemma of Friendship and Love 109
16. 6 Aristotle on the Praxis of Life 123
17. 7 Theory and Politics in Plato’s Republic 156
18. 8 Aristophanic Comedy and Its Democratic Permutations: Fidelity in Spirit? Or in Content and Form? 165
19. PART II. PRACTICES OF ENCOUNTERING ANTIQUITY
20. 3. Fragments
21. 9 Forms of Memory 185
22. 10 Anthropocene Fragments: A Sapphic Thought Collage 206
23. 11 Exiles and Deserts 239
24. 12 Black Dionysus 250
25. 4. Accumulations
26. 13 Photographing with the Muses 257
27. 14 How to Read the Nature of Things 299
28. 15 Eternal Recurrence and a History of Racism 322
29. 16 On Lucretius 343
30. Index 366