Aristotle on the Concept of Shared Life

According to the terms of Aristotle's Politics, to be alive is to instantiate an operation of power. This volume addresses the intertwining of power and life in Aristotle's thought, offering a critical re-appraisal of the concepts of life, the animal, and political animality in his political theory.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I. Shared Life in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics


• Introduction to Part I


• 1: Friendship and Other Selves in Aristotle's Ethics


• 2: Shared Life and Politics


• Part II. The Lives of Animals


• Introduction to Part II


• 3: Land-Dwellers and Water-Dwellers


• 4: Polis-Dwellers


• Part III. Z¿¿-Politics


• Introduction to Part III


• 5: The Commodification of Life


• 6: Natal Longing and the Maternal Bond


• 7: Coda: Unlivable Life

About the author

Sara Brill is Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, where she has also served as Chair of the Classical Studies Program. She works on the psychology, politics, and ethics of Plato and Aristotle, as well as broader questions of embodiment, life, and power as points of intersection between ancient Greek philosophy and literature and contemporary critical theory. She is the author of Plato on the Limits of Human Life (Indiana University Press, 2013) and the co-editor of Antiquities Beyond Humanism (with Emanuela Bianchi and Brooke Holmes; OUP, 2019), and has also published numerous articles on Plato, Aristotle, Greek tragedy, and the Hippocratic corpus.

Summary

According to the terms of Aristotle's Politics, to be alive is to instantiate an operation of power. This volume addresses the intertwining of power and life in Aristotle's thought, offering a critical re-appraisal of the concepts of life, the animal, and political animality in his political theory.

Additional text

It is extremely rich and enlightening, offering important philosophy that is both deeply rooted in history and highly relevant to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Brill, Sara (Professor of Philosophy Brill, Sarah Brill, Sarah (Professor of Philosophy Brill, Brill Sara, Oxford Editor
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780198839583
• ISBN: 978-0-19-883958-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Classics in Theory Series; C CLTH T CLASSICS IN THEORY SE; Classics in Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Political science and theory, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500