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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Note on the Text ix
5. Notes on Contributors xi
6. 1 A Thousand Antiquities 1
7. Part I Plato
8. 2 The Muses and Philosophy: Elements for a History of the Pseudos [1991] 13
9. 3 Odysseus’ Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er 30
10. 4 Plato’s Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education 47
11. Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato 65
12. 6 “Adjust Your Dread”: Badiou’s Metaphysical Disposition 86
13. Part II Aristotle
14. 7 Science Regained [1962] 119
15. 8 Aristotle’s Organism, and Ours 138
16. 9 Does It Matter? Material Nature and Vital Heat in Aristotle’s Biology 158
17. 10 The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi’s Search for Truth against Nihilism 180
18. 11 Diverging Ways: On the Trajectories of Ontology in Parmenides, Aristotle, and Deleuze 202
19. 12 Object and Οὐσία: Harman and Aristotle on the Being of Things 224
20. Part III Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and Neo-Platonists
21. 13 Lucretius and Naturalism [1961] 245
22. 14 On Causality and Law in Lucretius and Contemporary Cosmology 254
23. 15 On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism Encounter 270
24. 16 Contingency and Skepticism in Agamben’s Thought 289
25. 17 Plotinus’ “Reverse” Platonism: A Deleuzian Response to the Problem of Emanation Imagery 305
26. Part IV Postscript
27. 18 From Metaphysics to Ethics (with Bernard Stiegler, Heraclitus, and Aristotle) 323
28. Index adunamia 331