Parmenides of Elea
A Verse Translation with Interpretative Essays and Commentary to the Text
- 160 pages
- English
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Parmenides of Elea
A Verse Translation with Interpretative Essays and Commentary to the Text
About this book
Martin J. Henn's Parmenides of Elea offers to the reader a reinvigorating verse translation of the Diels and Kranz B-Fragments of Parmenides cast in rhyming couplet iambic pentameter. Placing Parmenides in his proper historical context by taking seriously the impact of Persian Zoroastrianism on his developing monism, Henn supplies precise interpretation of the most difficult and vexing of Parmenides's fragments, while also providing reliable philosophical analysis of the many seeming contradictions latent in the text. The interpretive essays form a unique contribution to studies of this work, exploring such issues as the sprawling influences of Persian Zoroastrian dualism, literary parallels and contrasts with Hesiod's Theogony, and the radical antithesis between a finite linear and an infinite closed-loop model of space and time. Overall, Henn's work represents a new model for study of a key element of philosophical literature, making it a highly significant addition to the scholarship on the subject.
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Table of contents
- 1. Parmenides and His Predecessors
- 2. Translation of the Diels B-Fragments
- 3. The Question of Being: A Dialectic of Alternative Paths
- 4. Fragment B 3: The Metaphysical Unity of Thinking and Being
- 5. Parmenides' Closed-Loop Concept of Time and the Illusion of Linear Time-Consciousness
- 6. Necessity, Possibility, and Contingency
- 7. The Teachings of the Goddess
- 8. The Diels and Kranz Greek Text in the Order Translated
- 9. Commentary to the Greek
- Select Bibliography
- Index Locorum: The Diels B-Fragments of Parmenides