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Lecture

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Greek Philosophy 1: The ‘Presocratic Philosophers’

Tuesday 7.07.2026

How to watch

This lecture starts on 7 July at 5:00pm (UK).

Summary

In this lecture, we explore the Presocratic philosophers. Who were they? Why do we call them “Presocratic”? And what did they say?

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

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Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at New York University. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017); and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History (Hawaii University Press, 2023).