anti-commentary

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ commentary

Noun

anti-commentary (plural anti-commentaries)

1. (history of philosophy) A hostile commentary, as distinct from an exposition.
   • 2011, Eleni Kechagia, Plutarch Against Colotes: A Lesson in History of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 80:

     Metrodorus too had written against two Platonic dialogues polemics that appear to have been of a similar sort; and later Philodemus also composed an anti-commentary against Xenophon’s Oeconomicus.

   • 2018, Linda Deer Richardson, Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance: The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel (1497–1558), →ISBN, page 144:

     More comprehensive than any of these […] is the De Rerum Natura juxta propria principia of Bernardino Telesio: in one sense a commentary on the natural philosophical works of Aristotle, in another sense a rejection of the Philosopher – an anti-commentary, as it were.

   • 2019, Stephen Mark Holmes, “Liturgical Theology before 1600”, in David Ferguson, Mark W. Elliott, editors, The History of Scottish Theology, volume 1, Celtic Origins to Reformed Orthodoxy, →ISBN, page 63:

     The first argues that sacred signs ordained by God have always been corrupted by men, the second, called ‘our litil treatise of ye Messe’, is an anti-commentary on the Mass and vestments, and the third a commentary on the Reformed liturgy.

   • 2021, Michael McOsker, The Good Poem According to Philodemus, →ISBN, page 53:

     The Herculaneum papyri preserve fragments of two other works of his: the anticommentaries “Against Plato’s Euthydemus” (PHerc. 1032) and “Against Plato’s Lysis” (PHerc. 208).