The breathing of the air: Presocratic echoes in levinas

Levinas and the Ancients

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-23

  Benso, Silvia ^a  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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References (11)

1. See Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age ofthe Greeks, trans. Marianne Cowan (Washington, D. C.: Regnery, 1996).
2. It should be noted that the term arche is not used by the Presocratics; it is instead Aristotelian in the sense that Aristotle uses it when classifying his predecessors according to how many "first causes" they postulated (Physics A, 2 184b 15ff.).
3. See Theophrastus, Physicorum Opiniones, fr. 2.
4. Diogenes Laertius, Life ofthe Philosophers 5:42.
5. John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy (New York: Meridian, 1957), 78ff.
6. Aetius I, 3, 4.
7. The cultural history of the term pneuma, as well as that of "spirit", is complex indeed. For such a history, see Gerard Verbeke, L'évolution de la doctrine du pneuma du stoicism à S. Augustine (New York: Garland, 1987)
8. and Marie Isaacs, The Concept of Spirit (London: Heythrop, 1976).
9. See G. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on the History of Philosophy, trans. E. S. Haldane and Frances H. Simson (New York: Humanities Press, 1974), 1:190.
10. Luce Irigaray, "A Breath That Touches in Words", rin I love to you, trans. Alison Martin (New York: Routledge, 1996), 123.
11. See Emmanuel Levinas and Richard Kearney, "Dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas", in Face to Face with Levinas, ed. Richard A. Cohen (Albany: State University of New Yo rk Press, 1986), 25.