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Anaximander and the architects : the contributions of Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies to the origins of Greek philosophy /

Bypassing Aristotle to look at evidence directly from the sixth century BCE, Hahn (philosophy, Southern Illinois U.-Carbondale) shows how the architects and their projects supplied their Ionian communities with a sprouting vision of natural order governed by structural laws. He argues that their tec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hahn, Robert, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001.
Colección:SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Philosophy
  • The Problem and the Three Tiers of Explanation
  • The Conventional View and Its Discontents
  • The New Contributing Thesis: Technology as Politics
  • The Ionian Philosophers and Architects
  • Fixing Anaximander's Date: The First Philosophical Book in Prose
  • Archaic Prose Writing: Pherecydes' Cosmogony and Legal Inscriptions
  • Prose in Archaic Architectural Treatises and the Community of Thales and Anaximander, Theodorus and Rhoikos, Chersiphron and Metagenes
  • The New Connection: The Contribution of the Egyptian Architects to the Ionian Greek Architects of the Archaic Period
  • An Overview of Monumental Temple Projects in Archaic Ionia
  • The Meaning of the Temple: Design Choices
  • The Techniques of the Ancient Architects
  • The Evidence for Imagining in Plan or Aerial View
  • The Evidence for Models
  • The Theory of Proportions
  • The Techniques of Anathyrosis and Empolion
  • Anaximander's Techniques
  • Architect, Philosopher, and the New Vision Supplied by the Application of Geometrical Techniques
  • Homer's World Picture
  • Hesiod's World Picture
  • Anaximander's World Picture: The Plan or Aerial View
  • Anaximander's World Picture: Three-dimensional Views
  • The Side, Elevation, Oblique, and Axonometric Views
  • Technology as Politics: the Origins of Greek Philosophy in Its Sociopolitical Context
  • Re-Framing the New Narrative Account
  • The Aristocratic Patrons of Archaic Temples
  • Technology as Politics: The "Argument" for the Appropriation of Civic Authority.