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Deleuze shows that Stoicism is a philosophical operation that turns the history of thought inside out Deleuze dramatizes the story of ancient philosophy as a rivalry of four types of thinkers: the subverting pre-Socratics, the ascending Plato, the interiorizing Aristotle and the perverting Stoics. Deleuze assigns the Stoics a privileged place because they introduced a new orientation for thinking and living that turns the whole story of philosophy inside out. Ryan Johnson reveals how Deleuze's provocative reading of ancient Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas. For Deleuze, the Stoics were innovators of an entire system of philosophy which they structured like an egg. Johnson structures his book in this way: Part I looks at physics (the yolk), Part II is logic (the shell) and Part III covers ethics (the albumen). Including previously untranslated French Stoic scholarship, Johnson unearths new possibilities for bridging contemporary and ancient philosophy. Ryan J. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Elon University in North Carolina.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ryan J. Johnson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elon University in North Carolina. He is the author of
Deleuze, A Stoic (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and
The Deleuze-Lucretius Encounter (EUP, 2017). He is co-editor of
Nietzsche and Epicurus (Bloomsbury, 2020),
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics (EUP, 2017) and
The Movement of Nothingness (Davies Group Publishers, 2012).
Zusammenfassung
Ryan Johnson reveals that Deleuze’s provocative reading of ancient Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas. Including previously untranslated French Stoic scholarship, Johnson unearths new possibilities for bridging contemporary and ancient philosophy.
