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Breaking Light : Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spitzer, D. M.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thales, approximately 634-546 B.C.
- Anaximander.
- Anaximenes, of Miletus.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Complexity (Philosophy).
- Local Subjects:
- Thales, approximately 634-546 B.C.
- Anaximander.
- Anaximenes, of Miletus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Discloses the ways in which opacity and relation in the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes depart from the predominant understanding of philosophy as clarity.In Breaking Light D.M.Spitzer discloses the ways in which opacity and relation orient the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes, Editions, and Abbreviations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Breaking Light
- Light: Beginnings
- Clarity
- Clarity and Unity
- Clarity and Translatability
- Opacity: Another Beginning
- Opacity
- Relation, Transversality
- Opacity and (Un-)Translatabilty
- (Re-)Beginnings: Recoveries, (Re-)Sources, Relations
- Re: Beginnings, Recoveries
- (Re-)Sources
- Relations
- Poetics of μίξις
- Chapter 1 Divining: Thalean ὕδωρ
- Dowsing
- Divining: The Look of ὕδωρ
- ὕδωρ and Source Darkness
- ὕδωρ and Subterranean Darkness
- ὕδωρ and Unilluminated Darkness
- ὕδωρ and Concealing Darkness
- Water-Witching: Locating ὕδωρ
- Chapter 2 Spanning: Anaximandrean ἄπειρον
- Crossings
- (Col-)Lapsing: ἄπειρον and Relation
- Crossing, Joining: ἄπειρον, Limit-non-limit, and Opacity
- Un-joining: ἄπειρον and Experience
- Dis-joining: ἄπειρον as (Non-)Experience
- Spanning: ἄπειρον as (Non-)Experience of Totality
- Chapter 3 Hovering: Anaximenean ἀήρ
- Hovering
- Shadowing
- (Un-)Enclosing
- Breathing
- Circling
- Conclusion Breaking Light, Unclosing Opacity
- Breaking Light: Unclosing
- Breaking Light: Daybreak on the Continent
- Breaking Light: Opacities, an Archipelago
- Archipelagic: Community Beyond Unity
- Multiple Imaginaries
- Multiplicities, Not Unities
- Thalean ὕδωρ
- Anaximandrean ἄπειρον
- Anaximenean ἀήρ
- Archipelagic: Horizons
- Horizoning: Archipelagic
- Breaking Light: A Poetics of Opacity
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
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- ISBN:
- 979-88-558-0740-0
- 979-88-558-0739-4
- OCLC:
- 1586548692
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