Early Greek Thought
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Early Greek Thought

Before the Dawn

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Early Greek Thought

Before the Dawn

About this book

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 is 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, James 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 is 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.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780567353313
eBook ISBN
9781441188892
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ancient History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue: Before the Dawn
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Dating: A ‘Rough Sketch’
  10. Part One Meta-Philosophy of Early Greek Thought
  11. Chapter 1 The Motif of the Dawn, or on Gossip
  12. Chapter 2 The Dance of Being: Contexts of Emergence and Mytho–Poetic Horizons
  13. Chapter 3 ‘War is the Mother of all things’: Nietzsche and the Birth of Philosophy
  14. Chapter 4 Aletheia and Being – Heidegger contra Nietzsche
  15. Chapter 5 Philosophy as Tragedy (and Comedy) – A Note on Post-structuralism
  16. Part Two Tragic Thought
  17. Chapter 6 The Question of the First: Thales and Anaximander
  18. Chapter 7 Recoiling from the Abyss: Anaximenes and Xenophanes
  19. Chapter 8 ‘All is Flux’ – Heraclitus of Epheus (535–475 BC)
  20. Chapter 9 The Eternal Recurrence of the Soul: Pythagoras of Samos
  21. Chapter 10 Tragic Differing – Parmenides of Elea (Early Fifth Century)
  22. Chapter 11 Love, Strife and Mind – Empedocles and Anaxagoras
  23. Chapter 12 The Divine Beauty of Chaos – Democritus of Thrace (460–370 BC)
  24. Chapter 13 Plato in the Shadow of the Sublime
  25. Epilogue: Poetics and the Matheme – On Badiou’s Lacan
  26. Notes
  27. References and Further Reading
  28. Index