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Early Greek thought : before the dawn / James Luchte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luchte, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pre-Socratic philosophers.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 197 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, [2011]
- Summary:
- Informed by a hermeneutic perspective, this is an original survey of the Pre-Socratic thinkers, the contexts from which they emerged and their continuing influence. >
- Contents:
- Prologue : before the dawn
- Meta-philosophy of early Greek thought
- The motif of the dawn, or, On gossip
- The dance of being : contexts of emergence and mytho-poetic horizons
- "War is the mother of all things" : Nietzsche and the birth of philosophy
- Aletheia and being : Heidegger contra Nietzsche
- Philosophy as tragedy (and comedy) : a note on post-structuralism
- The question of the first : Thales and Anaximander
- Recoiling from the abyss : Anaximenes and Xenophanes
- All is flux : Heraclitus
- Eternal return of the soul : Pythagoras
- Tragic differing : Parmenides
- Love, strife, and mind : Empedocles and Anaxagoras
- The divine beauty of chaos : Democritus
- Plato in the shadow of the sublime
- Epilogue. poetics, and the matheme : on Badiou.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 144114661X
- 9781441146618
- OCLC:
- 657602926
- Publisher Number:
- 99943986651
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