This classic essay from one of the twentieth-century\u2019s leading historians of European philosophy was formative to twentieth-century French thought<\/p>\n
The first English translation of a seminal text on ancient philosophy
\n Includes two new essays from leading scholars on historical and contemporary French thought
\n Unearths the overlooked influence of Br\u00e9hier\u2019s essay on twentieth-century French thinkers
\n Fills in a crucial yet often overlooked chapter in Deleuze Studies
\n Engages one of the most provocative themes in ancient materialism: incorporeality
\n Expands on continental returns to antiquity that focus on metaphysics, e.g., speculative realism, new materialism, affect theory, posthumanism, Althusserian and post-Althusserian approaches<\/p>\n
\u00c9mile Br\u00e9hier\u2019s creative interpretations of Stoicism inspired the next generation of thinkers \u2013 from Jean-Paul Sartre to Luce Irigaray \u2013 to rethink the history of philosophy. Perhaps most of all, Br\u00e9hier\u2019s thinking about the Stoic theory of incorporeality was pivotal to Gilles Deleuze\u2019s understanding of Ancient Greek and Roman thinkers, especially the Stoics, and formative for his own materialistic metaphysics. To understand the metaphysics, philosophy of language, and interpretations of psychoanalysis in Deleuze\u2019s Logic of Sense, Br\u00e9hier\u2019s influence remains to be fully elucidated.<\/p>\n
Yet such influence has been largely unknown in Anglophone philosophy \u2013 until now. For the first time since its publication nearly a century ago, Br\u00e9hier\u2019s groundbreaking essay finally appears in English. To frame its history and convey its importance for the future of philosophy, two new essays by a leading French philosopher and a British-Canadian philosopher bookend the translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"