Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Note on the Text

pp ix-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xiv

1 - A Thousand Antiquities

pp 1-10

Part I - Plato

pp 11-12

2 - The Muses and Philosophy: Elements for a History of the Pseudos [1991]

pp 13-29

3 - Odysseus’ Changed Soul: A Contemporary Reading of the Myth of Er

pp 30-46

4 - Plato's Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education

pp 47-64

5 - Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato

pp 65-85

6 - “Adjust Your Dread”: Badiou's Metaphysical Disposition

pp 86-116

Part II - Aristotle

pp 117-118

7 - Science Regained [1962]

pp 119-137

8 - Aristotle's Organism, and Ours

pp 138-157

9 - Does It Matter? Material Nature and Vital Heat in Aristotle's Biology

pp 158-179

10 - The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi's Search for Truth against Nihilism

pp 180-201

11 - Diverging Ways: On the Trajectories of Ontology in Parmenides, Aristotle, and Deleuze

pp 202-223

12 - Object and Οὐσία: Harman and Aristotle on the Being of Things

pp 224-242

Part III - Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and Neo-Platonists

pp 243-244

13 - Lucretius and Naturalism [1961]

pp 245-253

14 - On Causality and Law in Lucretius and Contemporary Cosmology

pp 254-269

15 - On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism Encounter

pp 270-288

16 - Contingency and Skepticism in Agamben's Thought

pp 289-304

17 - Plotinus’ “Reverse” Platonism: A Deleuzian Response to the Problem of Emanation Imagery

pp 305-320

Part IV - Postscript

pp 321-322

18 - From Metaphysics to Ethics (with Bernard Stiegler, Heraclitus, and Aristotle)

pp 323-330

Index

pp 331-338