Editorial Introduction

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Notes

Notes

1. I would like to note two previous collections that explore similar territory (but with different objectives): A. Benjamin (ed.), Post-Structuralist Classics (London: Routledge, 1988) and B. Cassin (ed.), Nos Grecs et leurs modernes (Paris: Seuil, 1992). The editors of both of these collections have contributions in this issue.

2. For the impact of Pyrrhonian Scepticism on the development of early modern philosophy (especially Montaigne and Descartes), see R.H. Popkin, The History of Scepticism, from Erasmus to Spinoza (Berkeley: U of California P, 1979).

3. See, e.g., P. Gay, The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism (New York: Norton, 1977) and, for the influence of Cicero, see P. MacKendrick, The Philosophical Books of Cicero (London: Duckworth, 1989) 276–85. Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals follows closely Cicero's On Duties, on which see K. Reich, “Kant and Greek Ethics II: Kant and Panaetius,” Mind 48 (1939): 446–63.

4. The literature on Nietzsche and antiquity is vast. For a recent selection of papers (as just one example), see Nietzsche and Antiquity, ed. P. Bishop (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004). See also Caygill's contribution to this issue.

5. See K. Marx, “Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature,” in K. Marx and F. Engels, Collected Works: Volume 1 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1975) 25–107.

6. There is not space here to detail all of Heidegger's work on ancient philosophy. Among recent commentary, see W. Brogan, Heidegger and Aristotle: The Twofoldness of Being (Albany, NY: SUNY, 2005) and his contribution to this issue.

7. Bergson's thesis, written in Latin, is entitled Quid Aristoteles de loco senserit. His study of Lucretius (from 1884) has been translated as The Philosophy of Poerty: The Genius of Lucretius, trans. W. Baskin (New York: Philosophical Library, 1959). His lectures on Greek philosophy have been published as Cours de Bergson sur la philosophie grecque (Paris: PUF, 2000).

8. For a study of the influence of Greek culture more widely on recent French thinkers, see M. Leonard, Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in Post-War French Thought (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005).

9. See Power's contribution to this issue.

10. See G. Deleuze, Logique du sens (Paris: Minuit, 1969), which includes not only an extended engagement with Stoicism but also previously published papers on Lucretius and Plato reproduced as appendixes. On Deleuze and Stoicism, see the contribution by Sellars in this issue.

11. See J. Derrida, La Dissémination (Paris: Seuil, 1972).

12. See Cheisa's contribution to this issue and note also M. Buchan, “Lacan and Socrates,” in A Companion to Socrates, ed. S. Ahbel-Rappe (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).

13. See K. Crome, Lyotard and Greek Thought: Sophistry (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and also his contribution to this issue.

14. For the claim about Seneca, see D. Eribon, Michel Foucault, trans. B. Wing (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1991) 331. As well as the second and third volumes of his History of Sexuality, note Foucault's lecture course The Hermenutics of the Subject, trans. G. Burchell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). See also May's contribution to this issue.

15. See Badiou's contribution to this issue. For commentary, see J. Clemens, “Platonic Meditations: The Work of Alain Badiou,” Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 11 (2001): 200–29. Note also Badiou's “Lacan and the Pre-Socratics,” in Lacan: The Silent Partners, ed. S. Žižek (London: Verso, 2006).

16. I would like to thank all of the contributors and translators, especially Jake Wadham for his translation and Alberto Toscano for his translation and assistance at a number of points. This issue developed out of a workshop on “Ancient and Continental” philosophy held at the University of Warwick in February 2003, under the auspices of the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature. I would like to thank the then Director of the CRPL, Christine Battersby, for her support and encouragement in putting on that event.