{"product_id":"year-1-isbn-9780262044875","title":"Year 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eReclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the past to speak to us in another way.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConventional 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 arbirtrary, nothing more than a convenience that is empirically meaningless. In \u003ci\u003eYEAR 1\u003c\/i\u003e, Buck-Morss liberates the first century so it can speak to us in another way, reclaiming it as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuck-Morss aims to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme and led us into some unhelpful postmodern impasses. She approaches the first century through the writings of three thinkers often marginalized in current discourse: Flavius Josephus, historian of the Judaean war; the neo-Platonic philosopher Philo of Alexandria; and John of Patmos, author of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible. Also making appearances are Antigone and John Coltrane, Plato and Bulwer-Lytton, al-Farabi and Jean Anouilh, Nicholas of Cusa and Zora Neale Hurston--not to mention Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Kristeva, and Derrida.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuck-Morss shows that we need no longer partition history as if it were a homeless child in need of the protective wisdom of Solomon. Those inhabiting the first century belong together in time, and therefore not to us.Introduction vii \u003cbr\u003e1.   COUNTING TIME, CHARTING SPACE 1 \u003cbr\u003e2. TRANSLATIONS IN TIME: ON FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS   29 \u003cbr\u003e3. HISTORY AND METAPHYSICS: ON PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA 75 \u003cbr\u003e4. HISTORY AND   IDENTITY: ON JOHN OF PATMOS 123 \u003cbr\u003e5. CONSTELLATIONS 163 \u003cbr\u003eI. Historical   Particularity and Philosophical Universality 165 \u003cbr\u003eII. Apocalypse Is Not Our   Present 182 \u003cbr\u003eIII. Woman on the Margins 200 \u003cbr\u003eIV. History and Truth 216 \u003cbr\u003eNotes 231 \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 367 \u003cbr\u003eIndex 391\"\u003ci\u003eYear One\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nasrin Olla, \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eYear 1\u003c\/i\u003e is the most convincing and elegantly presented example of a philosophical project of translating history: it simply sets the paradigm.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSouleymane Bachir Diagne, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eYear 1\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant intervention into the very question of how we read texts from the past—a restoration of the search for original meaning on a novel methodological and theoretical basis, as well as a major contribution to the study of the three treated authors.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDaniel Boyarin, Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003eSusan 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 \u003ci\u003eDreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West\u003c\/i\u003e (MIT Press) and other books.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303113380069,"sku":"NP9780262044875","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262044875.jpg?v=1767744672","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/year-1-isbn-9780262044875","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}