Ancient metaphysics and contemporary continental realism have a key goal in common: to investigate how beings exists outside of the descriptions placed on them by language, consciousness, texts and society. This volume addresses the encounters between contemporary and antique philosophies, from Plato, Aristotle and Lucretius to Deleuze, Agamben and Badiou. Alongside these essays are three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.

Introduction1. A Thousand Antiquities - Abraham Jacob Greenstine & Ryan J. JohnsonI. Plato2. The Muses and Philosophy: Elements for a History of the "Pseudos" [1991] - Barbara Cassin, trans. Sam Galson3. Odysseus' Changed Soul: A contemporary reading of the Myth of Er - Catherine Malabou4. Plato's Protagoras: The Authority of Beginning an Education - Daniel Price5. Univocity, Duality, and Ideal Genesis: Deleuze and Plato - John Bova & Paul Livingston6. "Adjust your dread": Badiou's Metaphysical Disposition - Adam BartlettII. Aristotle7. Science Regained [1962] - Pierre Aubenque, trans. Clayton Shoppa8. Aristotle's Organism, and Ours - Emanuela Bianchi9. Does it Matter? Material Nature and Vital Heat in Aristotle's Biology - Adriel M. Trott10. The Modern Aristotle: Michael Polanyi's Search for Truth against Nihilism - David Hoinski & Ron Polansky 11. Diverging Ways: The Trajectories of Ontology in Parmenides, Aristotle, and Deleuze - Abraham Jacob Greenstine12. Object and ?????: Harman and Aristotle on the Being of Things - Eric SalemIII. Epicureans, Stoics, Skeptics, and Neo-Platonists13. Lucretius and Naturalism [1961] - Gilles Deleuze, trans. Jared Bly14. On Causality and Law in Lucretius and Contemporary Cosmology - David Webb15. On the Surface: The Deleuze-Stoicism Encounter - Ryan J. Johnson16. Contingency and Skepticism in Agamben's Thought - Gert-Jan van der Heiden17. Plotinus' "Reverse" Platonism: A Deleuzian Response to the Problem of Emanation Imagery - Gina Zavota IV. Postscript 18. From Metaphysics to Ethics (with Bernard Stiegler, Heraclitus, and Aristotle) - Kurt Lampe