The poetry of being and the prose of the world in early Greek philosophy / Victoria Wohl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wohl, Victoria, 1966- Author.

Series:

Sather classical lectures ; v. 78.

Sather classical lectures ; volume seventy-eight

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Ancient.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

xv, 230 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The Presocratic philosophers, writing in Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, invented new ways of thinking about human life, the natural world, and the structures of reality. They also developed novel ways of using language to express their thought. In this book, Victoria Wohl examines these twin innovations and the productive relation between them in the work of five figures: Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus. Bringing these thinkers into conversation with modern critical theorists on questions of shared concern, Wohl argues for the poetic sophistication of their work and the inextricable convergence of their aesthetic form and philosophical content. In addition to offering original readings of these fascinating figures and robust strategies for interpreting their fragmentary, rebarbative texts, this book invites readers to communicate across entrenched divisions between literature and philosophy and between antiquity and modernity"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-224) and index.

Other Format:

Online version Wohl, Victoria, 1966- Poetry of being and the prose of the world in early Greek philosophy

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780520422643

0520422643

9780520413320

0520413326

OCLC:

1517229486

Publisher Number:

CIPO000261223