YEAR 1

A Philosophical Recounting

Susan Buck-Morss

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MIT Press
12 March 2024

Philosophy

Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences- liberating the past to speak to us in another way.

Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences- liberating the past to speak to us in another way.

Conventional 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 YEAR 1, 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.

Buck-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.

Buck-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.

By: Susan Buck-Morss
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262548625
ISBN 10: 0262548623
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 12 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction vii 1. COUNTING TIME, CHARTING SPACE 1 2. TRANSLATIONS IN TIME: ON FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS 29 3. HISTORY AND METAPHYSICS: ON PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA 75 4. HISTORY AND IDENTITY: ON JOHN OF PATMOS 123 5. CONSTELLATIONS 163 I. Historical Particularity and Philosophical Universality 165 II. Apocalypse Is Not Our Present 182 III. Woman on the Margins 200 IV. History and Truth 216 Notes 231 Bibliography 367 Index 391

Susan 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 Dreamworld and Catastrophe- The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (MIT Press) and other books.

Reviews for YEAR 1: A Philosophical Recounting

""Year One 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."" --Nasrin Olla, Radical Philosophy