The Eccentric Core - The Thought of Seth BenardeteAuthor :
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This volume is a tribute to the thought of Seth Benardete by contributors who had the rare good fortune of studying with him or those who discovered the treasure of his writings. Benardeteâ?Ts classical scholarship and remarkable knowledge of Greek served his philosophic quest to understand the nature of things, which he pursued through a brilliant practice of interpretation of texts. He found in the Platonic dialogueâ?"in the action through which the argument unfoldsâ?"the key to philosophic thinking, and this enabled him, in turn, to read the poets philosophically. He was fully immersed in the world of the ancients, starting with Homer, but their works opened up for him a way to the fundamental questionsâ?"about justice and love, nature and law, the city and the gods. Seeing, as he once put it, that â?othe problem of the human good is grounded in the city, and the problem of being in god,â?? he came to the conclusion that â?oPolitical philosophy is the eccentric core of philosophy.â?? Benardete wrote this statement reflecting on the political-theological issue in the work of his teacher, Leo Strauss; but the paradoxical notion of an â?oeccentric core,â?? which gives this volume its title, expresses the characteristic way his own thinking so often moves from an off-center observation to disclose, unexpectedly, the unifying focal point of a whole. A A A A This collection had its origin in a small conference organized by Patrick Goodin in the spring of 2005 at Howard University. It expanded to include papers from an earlier memorial conference for Benardete at the New School for Social Research in December 2002 and a reflection just after his death, in November 2001, as well as reviews of his books published over the years. The essays about or inspired by Benardeteâ?Ts thoughtâ?"on the Bible and Homer, the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle and the Roman writersâ?"suggest the remarkable range of his teaching and studies. The centrality of Plato is evident not only in these essays but also in the reviews, by readers who appreciate the importance of Benardeteâ?Ts work, its subtlety and its depth. The volume closes with three of Benardeteâ?Ts previously unpublished essays and a bibliography of his writings. Harvey Mansfield, Ronna Burger, Laurence Lampert, John Blanchard, Olivia Delgado de Torres, Heinrich Meier, Michael Davis, Robert Berman, A Patrick Goodin, Richard Velkley, Holly Haynes, Steven Berg, Bryan Warnick, Stanley Rosen, Will Morrisey, Arlene Saxonhouse, Abraham Anderson, Martin Sitte, Steven Berg, Edward Rothstein, Mark Blitz, Vincent Renzi, Svetozar, and including Seth Benardete. Patrick Goodin is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University, where he has taught since 1996.A He received his PhD from the New School for Social Research in 1996 after writing his dissertation, under Benardeteâ?Ts supervision, on Aristotleâ?Ts de Anima. His research and teaching interests include Ancient Greek Philosophy, Africana, Afro-Caribbean and African American Philosophy. Ronna Burger is Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair and Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. After completing her dissertation on Platoâ?Ts Phaedrus, directed by Benardete, she went on to write The Phaedo: A Platonic Labyrinth (Yale 1985, St. Augustineâ?Ts Press, revised edition 2016). She is the author of Aristotleâ?Ts Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics (Chicago 2008) as well as co-editor with Michael Davis of two collections of Seth Benardeteâ?Ts writings, The Argument of the Action (Chicago 2000) and The Archaeology of the Soul (St. Augustineâ?Ts Press 2012). A
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