The Tomb of the Artisan God

On Plato's Timaeus

Serge Margel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2019
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-0641-2 (ISBN)

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A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato's Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original French edition profoundly influenced Derrida The Tomb of the Artisan God provides a radical rereading of Timaeus, Plato's metaphysical text on time, eternity, and the relationship between soul and body. First published in French in 1995, the original edition of Serge Margel's book included an extensive introductory essay by Jacques Derrida, who drew on Margel's insights in developing his own concepts of time, the promise, the world, and khora. Now available in English with a new preface by Margel, this engagement with Platonic thought proceeds from two questions that span the history of philosophy: What is time? What is the body?Margel's twinned interrogation centers around Plato's concept of the demiurge (divine artisan or craftsman): its body, its anthropomorphic attributes, its productive capacities and regulatory functions in the ordering/organization/assembling of the world. He posits that this paradoxical figure is not merely a cosmological metaphor for the living body but also the site of its destruction, dissolution, and disappearance. Torn between the finite and the infinite, being and becoming, the concept of demiurge also poses metaphysical questions about time, time before time, and the end of time. The ontological status of the demiurge's body, Margel argues, would become increasingly decisive in the history of philosophy, particularly in Christianity and the dogma of incarnation.

Serge Margel is researcher at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique and lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel. Philippe Lynes is junior research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English Studies at Durham University.

Contents
Publisher's Note
Preface to the English Edition
Introduction
Part I. The Cosmological Formation of Time
1. The Demiurge's Power
Birth of an Organization
The Soul of the World and the Concept of Time
2. Chora: The Genesis of the World as Representation
The Genetic Formation of the Elements
Representation and Configuration
Part II: The Phenomenological Formation of Time
3. The Genesis of Time and the Mimetic Functions of the Soul
Genetic Time and Numerical Time
The Birth of the Human Soul
4. The Immortality of the Soul and Its Fate
The Molecular Structure of the Living Body
Death in the Soul of the Immortal Living Thing

Erscheinungsdatum	09.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	Univocal
Übersetzer	Philippe Lynes
Verlagsort	Minnesota
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-5179-0641-5 / 1517906415
ISBN-13	978-1-5179-0641-2 / 9781517906412
Zustand	Neuware