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Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy (Hardcover)
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In Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy-published originally in
Japanese and now available in four languages-Kojin Karatani
questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of
philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a
set of Greek colonies located in present-day Turkey. Contrasting
Athenian democracy with Ionian isonomia-a system based on non-rule
and a lack of social divisions whereby equality is realized through
the freedom to immigrate-Karatani shows how early Greek thinkers
from Heraclitus to Pythagoras were inseparably linked to the
isonomia of their Ionian origins, not democracy. He finds in
isonomia a model for how an egalitarian society not driven by class
antagonism might be put into practice, and resituates Socrates's
work and that of his intellectual heirs as the last philosophical
attempts to practice isonomia's utopic potentials. Karatani subtly
interrogates the democratic commitments of Western philosophy from
within and argues that the key to transcending their contradictions
lies not in Athenian democracy, with its echoes of imperialism,
slavery, and exclusion, but in the openness of isonomia.
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