Year 1
A Philosophical Recounting
$62.24
- Hardcover
456 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2021
Summary
Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences—liberating the past to speak to us in another way.
Conventional readings of antiquity cast Athens against Jerusalem, with Athens standing in for “reason” and Jerusalem for “faith.” And yet, Susan Buck-Morss reminds us, recent scholarship has overturned this separation. Naming the first century as a zero point—“year one”—that divides time into before and after is equally arbitrary, not…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262044875 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262044870 |
| Author: | Susan Buck-Morss |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 732g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“Year One seeks to remind us that we need not think of the past or the present as ossified. We can discover unexpected worlds in historical archives. And, inspired by these discoveries, we can think in a radically different manner about disciplinary structures, the future of the humanities, and the binds that connect us across space and time.”—Nasrin Olla, Radical Philosophy
About The Author
Susan Buck-Morss
Susan Buck-Morss is Distinguished Professor of Political Theory at the CUNY Graduate Center and Jan Rock Zubrow Professor Emerita of Government at Cornell University. She is the author of Dreamworld and Catastrophe- The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press) and other books.
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