{"product_id":"no-ones-ways-an-essay-on-infinite-naming-9781935408888","title":"No One's Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming","description":"\u003cp\u003eHomer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with nothing but his wits, Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name. He called himself Outis: \"No One\" or \"Non-One,\" \"No Man\" or \"Non-Man.\" The ploy was a success. He blinded his barbaric host and eluded him, becoming anonymous, for a while, even as he bore a name. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePhilosophers never forgot the lesson that the ancient hero taught. From Aristotle and his commentators in Greek, Arabic, Latin, and more modern languages, from the masters of the medieval schools to Kant and his many successors, thinkers have exploited the possibilities of adding \"non-\" to the names of man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAristotle is the first to write of \"indefinite\" or \"infinite\" names, his example being \"non-man.\" Kant turns to such terms in his theory of the infinite judgment, illustrated by the sentence, \"The soul is non-_mortal.\" Such statements play unexpected and often major roles in the systems of Salomon Maimon, Hegel and Hermann Cohen, before being variously and profoundly reinterpreted in the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReconstructing the adventures of a particle in philosophy, Heller-Roazen's book shows how a grammatical possibility can be an incitement for thought. Yet it also draws a lesson from persistent examples. The philosophers' infinite names all point to one subject: us. \"Non-man\" or \"soul,\" \"Spirit\" or \"the unconditioned,\" we are beings who name and name ourselves, bearing witness to the fact that we are, in every sense, unnamable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeller-Roazen, Daniel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEcholalias: On the Forgetting of Language, The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation, The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by Zone Books.","brand":"Zone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50516535869714,"sku":"9781935408888","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_70eed0c2-2386-4352-9a66-d486d9b54b97.jpg?v=1731027555","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/no-ones-ways-an-essay-on-infinite-naming-9781935408888","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}