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-"year one"-as a zero point that divides time into before and after is merely a retroactive numbering plan, nothing more than a convenience that is empirically meaningless. In YEAR 1, Buck-Morss liberates the past so it can speak to us in another way, reclaiming the first century as common ground rather than the origin of deeply entrenched differences.
| ISBN: | 9780262044875 |
| Publication date: | 14th April 2021 |
| Author: | Susan BuckMorss |
| Publisher: | The MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 456 pages |
| Genres: |
History Philosophy |