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Introduction Part I: In the Shadow of Ancient Parnassos: The Coming of the Cosmic Night CHAFFER ONE CHILDREN OF OEDIPUS AND THE TRAGEDY OF MODERNITY: KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Classical Antiquity and the Early Marx, 6; Classical Antiquity and the Later Marx, 10; Nietzsche and the Greeks, 20; Greek Tragedy and Nineteenth-Century German Philosophy, 21; Early Greek Physics and Metaphysics, 26; Decadence and Disen- chantment of Science, 29; Will to Power as Moral Creativity and Self-Determination, 31 CHAPTER TWO ANCIENT ECONOMY AND CLASSICAL TRAGEDY: MAX WEBER AND FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Weber on Ancient History and the Homeric City, 41; Rational- ization of Antiquity and Structures of Ancient Capitalism, 45; Markets and Military in the Hoplite Cities of the Seventh Cen- tury B.c., 50; Solon, Cleisthenes, and the Constitution of Athen- ian Democracy, 51; Mortgage, Slavery, and the Decline of Clas- sical Democracy, 55; Medieval Cities and the Origins of Modern Capitalism, 57; Riehl, T6nnies, and Simmel on Nietzsche, 60; Simmel on Kantian Morality and the Doctrine of Eternal Return, 67; The Gods of Greece after Nihilism and Disenchantment, 71; Weber and Nietzsche on Kantian Themes of Objectivity and Perspectivism, 76 Part II: Phenomenology and the Greeks: Praxis as Understanding CHAPTER THREE CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND THE METAPHYSICS OF NIHILISM: MARTIN HEIDEGGER Aristotle's Phenomenology and Greek Ontology, 85; Heideg- ger's Earliest Statements on Life, Death, and Time, 92; Nature, Life, and Movement in Aristotle's Physics, 95; The Anaximander Fragment and the Tragedy of Metaphysics, 98; Heraclitus and the Storm of the Enlightenment, 104; The Fate of Parmenides, 106; Plato's Theory of Truth and the Origins of Metaphysics, 108; Cartesian Epistemology and the Technological Society, 111; Metaphysics of Science and Subjectivity, 115; Kant's Transcen- dental Subjectivity as a Metaphysics of Being, 117; Revaluation of Nietzsche and the Metaphysics of Nihilism, 123: Dasein as Understanding and Interpretation, 128 Part Ill: The Gods of Greece and the Reenchantment of Reason CHAPTER FOUR RECOVERING SENSUALITY AND LIBERATING REASON: SIGMUND FREUD AND HERBERT MARCUSE 11 Psychoanalysis and Classical Antiquity, 134; Greek Tragedy and Freud's Theory of the Unconscious, 139; Repression and the Critique of Cartesian Consciousness, 144; Classical Ideals and Aesthetic Liberation in Freud, Winckelmann, and Goethe, 149; The Education of Herbert Marcuse, 153; Greek Mythology and Sexual Liberation in Marcuse, 154; Schiller's Hellenic Ideals and Marcuse's Utopian Imagination, 163; Reason beyond the Enlightenment, 166; Platonic Dialogue, Aristotelian Discourse, and the Greek Origins of Critical Theory, 168 CHAPTER FIVE EXORCISING PLATO AND THE TYRANNYOF REASON: HANNAH ARENDT 1 Idealizing Mycenaean Heroes and Athenian Citizens, 177; Aris- totle and Kant on Political Judgment, 186; Fragility of Immor- tality and the Pursuit of Public Happiness, 191; Jeffersonian Democracy and the Critique of Liberalism, 199; Fabricating History and Flaming the Passions of Reason, 202 CHAPTER SIX TWILIGHT OF ATHENS AND THE ORIGINS OF HERMENEUTICS: HANS-GEORG GADAMER Plato and Politics after Nietzsche and Heidegger, 212; Dialectic and Dialogue in Plato and Aristotle, 218; Practical Reason in Aris- totelian Ethics and Critical Hermeneutics, 227; Heidegger's Hermeneutics and Gadamer's Historical Consciousness, 232; Aris- totle and Heidegger--The Fusion of Ancient and Modem, 239 Part IV: Eclipse of Antiquity and the Revaluation of the Enlightenment CHAPTER SEVEN REASON AND JUSTICE AFTER ANTIQUITY: JURGEN HABERMAS Habermas and Aristotle, 245; Habermas and Neo-Aristotelian Communitarianism, 248; Aristotle and Historical Consciousness in Gadamer, 252; Idealizing the Greeks in Arendt, 257; Evolution of "Critique" in Kant, Hegel, and Marx, 261; Work and Ideology in Marx, 264; Freud's Theory of Repression and Systematically Distorted Communication, 267; Rationalization and Structural Distortions in Advanced Capitalism, 271; Rethinking Rationality and the Enlightenment, 273; Replacing Phronesis with Kantian Discourse Ethics, 278 Notes Index About the Author |