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Early Greek thought : before the dawn /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Luchte, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2011.
Colección:Continuum studies in ancient philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.