{"title":"Polykoiranie I (Derrida, Homer, Aristotle, Xenophanes)","authors":"Geoffrey Bennington","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv119918b.7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The chapter begins from Derrida’s quoting of Aristotle quoting a line from Homer as to the superiority of a single ruler over many. Derrida’s use of this line to align Aristotle with Plato in his treatment of the One God is challenged by careful consideration of many ambiguities that arise once the Homer line is read in the context from which it emerges. The complexity of the relation between the One God and the many gods of polytheism is introduced via Xenophanes’ theology.","PeriodicalId":371657,"journal":{"name":"Scatter 2","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scatter 2","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv119918b.7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
Polykoiranie I (Derrida, Homer, Aristotle, Xenophanes)
The chapter begins from Derrida’s quoting of Aristotle quoting a line from Homer as to the superiority of a single ruler over many. Derrida’s use of this line to align Aristotle with Plato in his treatment of the One God is challenged by careful consideration of many ambiguities that arise once the Homer line is read in the context from which it emerges. The complexity of the relation between the One God and the many gods of polytheism is introduced via Xenophanes’ theology.