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EARLY GREEK THOUGHT
CONTEXTS OF EMERGENCE AND INFLUENCE OF THE PRE-SOCRATICS |
| By: |
James Luchte |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£18.32 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1441188894 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781441188892 |
| Publisher: |
CONTINUUM PUBLISHING CORPORATION |
| Pub. date: |
2 July, 2011 |
| Series: |
Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
Using an original hermeneutical approach, it excavates the context of emergence of early Greek thought through an exploration of the mytho-poetic horizons of the archaic world, in relation to which, as Plato testifies, the Greeks were merely 'children'. |
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Informed by a hermeneutic perspective, this is an original survey of the Pre-Socratic thinkers, the contexts from which they emerged and their continuing influence. "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 of emergence of early Greek thought through an exploration of the mytho-poetic horizons of the archaic world, in relation to which, as Plato testifies, the Greeks were merely 'children'. Luchte discloses 'philosophy in the tragic age' as a creative response to a 'contestation' of mytho-poetic narratives and 'ways of being'.The tragic character of early Greek thought will be unfolded through a cultivation of a conversation between its basic thinkers, one which would remain incomprehensible, with Bataille, in the 'absence of myth' and the exile of poetry. "Continuum Studies in Ancient Philosophy" presents cutting edge scholarship in the history of ancient philosophy. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from across the fields of Philosophy and Classical Studies. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Continuum Publishing Corporation |
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Non-returnable |
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