Kairos. Appropriateness and Occasion. Word and Notion, from Homer to the End of the 4th Century BC.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 19616 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 368 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
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In Homer's time, the Greek word kairos designated a neuralgic place in the body, a critical point. How did it soon come to mean occasion, and, in modern Greek, time? When, in Greece in the 5th century BC, the human sciences—medicine, politics, rhetoric—were born, they sought to develop an art of forecasting and prognosis and saw the mastery of kairos as the key to success. By what means did physicians and orators attempt to capture this multifaceted and elusive kairos? These are some of the questions that inspired this study. In this classical Greek world, which still largely ignored the art of measurement, we witness the first attempts of Western thought to outline a logic of quality—a quest that is still relevant today, as evidenced by the efforts of contemporary science. Monique Trédé-Boulmer, former deputy director of ENS-Ulm Paris, taught at the universities of Aix-en-Provence, Rouen, ENSJF and ENS-Ulm Paris, where she directed the Center for Ancient Studies from 1998 to 2008.
In Homer's time, the Greek word kairos designated a neuralgic place in the body, a critical point. How did it soon come to mean occasion, and, in modern Greek, time? When, in Greece in the 5th century BC, the human sciences—medicine, politics, rhetoric—were born, they sought to develop an art of forecasting and prognosis and saw the mastery of kairos as the key to success. By what means did physicians and orators attempt to capture this multifaceted and elusive kairos? These are some of the questions that inspired this study. In this classical Greek world, which still largely ignored the art of measurement, we witness the first attempts of Western thought to outline a logic of quality—a quest that is still relevant today, as evidenced by the efforts of contemporary science. Monique Trédé-Boulmer, former deputy director of ENS-Ulm Paris, taught at the universities of Aix-en-Provence, Rouen, ENSJF and ENS-Ulm Paris, where she directed the Center for Ancient Studies from 1998 to 2008.