03773nam 2200697 a 450 991077973210332120200520144314.03-11-030650-610.1515/9783110306507(CKB)2550000001097067(EBL)1058549(OCoLC)851970297(SSID)ssj0000916891(PQKBManifestationID)11520294(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000916891(PQKBWorkID)10891770(PQKB)10149996(MiAaPQ)EBC1058549(DE-B1597)206978(OCoLC)853256144(DE-B1597)9783110306507(Au-PeEL)EBL1058549(CaPaEBR)ebr10728919(CaONFJC)MIL503601(PPN)202083713(PPN)175533091(EXLCZ)99255000000109706720130501d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn search of Pythagoreanism[electronic resource] Pythagoreanism as an historiographical category /Gabriele CornelliBoston De Gruyter20131 online resource (244 p.)Studia Praesocratica ;4Studia praesocratica,1869-7143 ;Bd. 4Description based upon print version of record.3-11-030627-1 1-299-72350-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 History of criticism: from Zeller to Kingsley -- 2 Pythagoreanism as a historiographical category -- 3 Immortality of the soul and metempsýchōsis -- 4 Numbers -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Topics -- Index of Passages -- Index of NamesThe history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations, to the point that Kahn (1974) suggested that, instead of another thesis on Pythagoreanism, it would be preferable to assess traditions with the aim of producing a good historiographical presentation. This almost fourty-year-old observation by Kahn, directs the author of this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological brand of work, that is, one neither exclusively devoted to the exegesis of sources such as Philolaus, Archytas or even of one of the Hellenistic Lives nor even to the theoretical approach of one of the themes that received specific contributions from Pythagoreanism, such as mathematics, cosmology, politics or theories of the soul. Instead, this monograph sets out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism’s image, facing one of the central problems that characterizes Pythagoreanism more than other ancient philosophical movements: the drastically shifting terrain of the criticism of the sources. The goal of this historiographical approach is to embrace Pythagoreanism in its entirety, through - and not in spite of - its complex articulation across more than a millennium. Studia PraesocraticaPHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & ClassicalbisacshHistoriography of Ancient Thought.History of Ancient Philosophy.Presocratics.Pythagoras.Pythagoreanism.PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical.182/.2Cornelli Gabriele327273MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779732103321In search of Pythagoreanism1779909UNINA