A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato's Timaeus and its
engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original
French edition profoundly influenced Derrida The Tomb of the
Artisan God provides a radical rereading of Timaeus, Plato's
metaphysical text on time, eternity, and the relationship between
soul and body. First published in French in 1995, the original
edition of Serge Margel's book included an extensive introductory
essay by Jacques Derrida, who drew on Margel's insights in
developing his own concepts of time, the promise, the world, and
khora. Now available in English with a new preface by Margel, this
engagement with Platonic thought proceeds from two questions that
span the history of philosophy: What is time? What is the body?
Margel's twinned interrogation centers around Plato's concept of
the demiurge (divine artisan or craftsman): its body, its
anthropomorphic attributes, its productive capacities and
regulatory functions in the ordering/organization/assembling of the
world. He posits that this paradoxical figure is not merely a
cosmological metaphor for the living body but also the site of its
destruction, dissolution, and disappearance. Torn between the
finite and the infinite, being and becoming, the concept of
demiurge also poses metaphysical questions about time, time before
time, and the end of time. The ontological status of the demiurge's
body, Margel argues, would become increasingly decisive in the
history of philosophy, particularly in Christianity and the dogma
of incarnation.
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