Nobody's Greece.

In a period of questioning meaning, the texts, partly unpublished, which make up this collection, show in all its breadth the journey of a critic of Greek thought and a specialist in decipherment. Jean Bollack did not content himself with collecting his most famous articles, he reread them, commented on them (sometimes with thirty years of hindsight), showing how he taught himself to read. A technique takes its measure and is refined in the work on ancient cosmologies. By reflecting on its own approach, philology acquires a distance that it had not yet experienced. The radical break between Antiquity and modernity, always original, is always rethought. Jean Bollack thus explores the homology that Empedocles, Heraclitus, atomists or myth, the most broken cosmologies and languages, a Frénaud, a Saint-John Perse, a Celan, maintain with them. Greece, returned to itself, opens to the eyes an unknown land, no one's Greece.