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In Aristotle and Tragic Temporality, Sean D. Kirkland offers a fresh interpretation of Aristotle’s ethics following an unexpected but fruitful path through his Poetics and Physics. Taking aim at those who would too readily impute a metaphysics of presence and a modern division of subject and object to Aristotle, this book upsets now-canonical truisms of Aristotelian philosophy-- the reduced status of dialectic, time as objective or subjective, the separation of epistemological and metaphysical principles—and affirms the fundamental importance of appearance for how we initially engage and understand the world. It is a book for scholars of Aristotle and it is a book for humans concerned to live and act in the face of an uncertain future. -- Adriel M. Trott, Wabash College

In Aristotle and Tragic Temporality, Sean D. Kirkland offers a fresh interpretation of Aristotle's ethics following an unexpected but fruitful path through his Poetics and Physics. Taking aim at those who would too readily impute a metaphysics of presence and a modern division of subject and object to Aristotle, this book upsets now-canonical truisms of Aristotelian philosophy-- the reduced status of dialectic, time as objective or subjective, the separation of epistemological and metaphysical principles--and affirms the fundamental importance of appearance for how we initially engage and understand the world. It is a book for scholars of Aristotle and it is a book for humans concerned to live and act in the face of an uncertain future.--Adriel M. Trott, Wabash College

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Sean D. Kirkland is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and serves as the Co-Director of DePaul's Institute for Nature and Culture. He specializes in ancient Greek philosophy, as well as 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. He is the author of Heidegger and the Destruction of Aristotle (Northwestern, 2023) and The Ontology of Socratic Questioning (SUNY, 2012), as well as co-editor of A Companion to Ancient Philosophy (Northwestern, 2018) and The Returns of Antigone (SUNY, 2014).

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