Year 1: A Philosophical Recounting

by Susan Buck-Morss

Book Overview

Reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences: liberating the past to speak to us in another way.

Conventional readings of antiquity cast Athens against Jerusalem, with Athens standing in for "reason" and Jerusalem for "faith." And yet, Susan Buck-Morss reminds us, recent scholarship has overturned this separation. Naming the first century as a zero point--"year one"--that divides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262548623
• ISBN13: 9780262548625
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 416 Pages