{"product_id":"isonomia-and-the-origins-of-philosophy-paperback-softback-9780822369134","title":"Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822369134","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIsonomia and the Origins of Philosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKojin Karatani (Author), Joseph A. Murphy (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822369134\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"A work of historical importance, this book should be read by all who are interested in the innumerable conflicts that beset the contemporary world. Essential.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - J. A. Fischel (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Karatani’s \u003ci\u003eIsonomia and the Origins of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e is a deceptively complex work that offers numerous transdisciplinary insights for the philosophically initiated and uninitiated alike. And while its true value may be its intellectual historical angle – namely, its fascinating re-presentation of the history of Greek philosophy – \u003ci\u003eIsonomia\u003c\/i\u003e is a very worthwhile part of Karatani’s broader effort to offer readers an illuminating systematic perspective from which to view our contemporary political and philosophical situation.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Brendan Harvey (Marx \u0026amp; Philosophy Review of Books) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Provocative, wide-ranging, and very clearly written, \u003ci\u003eIsonomia and the Origins of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e is highly worthwhile to read for philosophers, political theorists, and anyone interested in questions of universal history.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Grant Andersen (Philosophy in Review)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIsonomia and the Origins of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e-published originally in Japanese and now available in four languages-Kōjin Karatani questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey. Contrasting Athenian democracy with Ionian isonomia-a system based on non-rule and a lack of social divisions whereby equality is realized through the freedom to immigrate-Karatani shows how early Greek thinkers from Heraclitus to Pythagoras were inseparably linked to the isonomia of their Ionian origins, not democracy. He finds in isonomia a model for how an egalitarian society not driven by class antagonism might be put into practice, and resituates Socrates's work and that of his intellectual heirs as the last philosophical attempts to practice isonomia's utopic potentials. Karatani subtly interrogates the democratic commitments of Western philosophy from within and argues that the key to transcending their contradictions lies not in Athenian democracy, with its echoes of imperialism, slavery, and exclusion, but in the openness of isonomia.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eTranslator's Note  vii\u003cbr\u003e Map  viii\u003cbr\u003e Author's Preface to the Japanese Edition  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Universal Religion  1\u003cbr\u003e Ethical Prophets   5\u003cbr\u003e Exemplary Prophets  7\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ionian Society and Thought\u003cbr\u003e Athens and Ionia  11\u003cbr\u003e Isonomia and Democracy  14\u003cbr\u003e Athenian Democracy  17\u003cbr\u003e State and Democracy  20\u003cbr\u003e Colonization and Isonomia  22\u003cbr\u003e Iceland and North America  26\u003cbr\u003e Isonomia and Council  31\u003cbr\u003e 2, The Background of Ionian Natural Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e Natural Philosophy and Ethics  35\u003cbr\u003e Hippocrates  39\u003cbr\u003e Herodotus  42\u003cbr\u003e Homer  46\u003cbr\u003e Hesiod  51\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Essential Points of Ionian Natural Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e The Critique of Religion  56\u003cbr\u003e Self-Moving Matter  58\u003cbr\u003e Poiesis and Becoming  62\u003cbr\u003e 4. Post-Ionian Thought\u003cbr\u003e Pythagoras  68\u003cbr\u003e Heraclitus  80\u003cbr\u003e Parmenides  87\u003cbr\u003e Post-Eliatics  96\u003cbr\u003e 5. Socrates and Empire\u003cbr\u003e The Athenian Empire and Democracy  103\u003cbr\u003e Sophists and Rule by Rhetoric  107\u003cbr\u003e The Trial of Socrates  110\u003cbr\u003e The Riddle of Socrates  114\u003cbr\u003e Daimon  118\u003cbr\u003e The Socratic Method  121\u003cbr\u003e Plato and Pythagoras  125\u003cbr\u003e The Philosopher-King  127\u003cbr\u003e Isonomia and the Philosopher-King  130\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. From \u003ci\u003eStructure of World History\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eIsonomia and the Origins of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e  135\u003cbr\u003e Timeline of the Ancient World  141\u003cbr\u003e Notes  143\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  155\u003cbr\u003e Index  159\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656111747352,"sku":"9780822369134","price":17.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/isonomia-and-the-origins-of-philosophy-paperback-softback-9780822369134","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}