Buch, Englisch, Band 78, 252 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Sather Classical Lectures
Buch, Englisch, Band 78, 252 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Sather Classical Lectures
ISBN: 978-0-520-42264-3
Verlag: University of California Press
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The Presocratic philosophers, writing in Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, invented new ways of thinking about human life, the natural world, and structures of reality. They also developed novel ways of using language to express their thought. In this book, Victoria Wohl examines these innovations and the productive relation between them in the work of five figures: Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus.
Bringing these thinkers into conversation with modern critical theorists on questions of shared concern, Wohl argues for the poetic sophistication of their work and the inextricable convergence of their aesthetic form and philosophical content. In addition to offering original readings of these fascinating figures and robust strategies for interpreting their fragmentary, rebarbative texts, this book invites readers to communicate across entrenched divisions between literature and philosophy and between antiquity and modernity.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
