| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 197 pages). |
| Series |
Continuum studies in ancient philosophy |
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Continuum studies in ancient philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Early Greek Thought calls into question a longstanding mythology - operative in both the Analytic and Continental traditions - that the Pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all traditional forms of knowledge' (Badiou). Each of the variants of this mythology will be dismantled in an attempt to not only retrieve an indigenous' interpretation of early Greek thought, but also to expose the mythological character of our own contemporary meta-narratives regarding the origins' of Western', Occidental' philosophy. Using an original hermeneutical approach, Luchte excavates the context. |
| Subject |
Pre-Socratic philosophers.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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Pre-Socratic philosophers. (OCoLC)fst01074777
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Luchte, James. Early Greek thought. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2011 (DLC) 2011002465 (OCoLC)657602926 |
| Standard No. |
9786613163233 |
| ISBN |
9781441188892 (electronic bk.) |
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1441188894 (electronic bk.) |
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