Derrida and Antiquity

Miriam Leonard is Lecturer in Greek Literature and its Reception at University College London.

Thank God for Derrida and Antiquity, which does an immense ammount of work in bringing together two great forces in the history of ideas. It is tiring even to think about how much one has to know in order to evaluate Derrida's encounter with antiquity ... but with the essays in this volume we gain an interesting and knowledgable perspective on the subject. Together they provide the reader with a broad but also deep overview of the relationship of Derridean thought to ancient philosophy and literature;its geneologu; and its implications for the way we think about contemporary philosophical, political and ethical problems.

• I. DERRIDA AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION; II. ANTIQUITY AND MODERNITY; III. A POLITICS OF ANTIQUITY; IV. THE QUESTION OF LITERATURE; V. PLATONIC BODIES