LEADER 03170nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910457119603321 005 20211103094107.0 010 $a1-283-16323-3 010 $a9786613163233 010 $a1-4411-8889-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039249 035 $a(EBL)732114 035 $a(OCoLC)741492905 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000522167 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12205260 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522167 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10528442 035 $a(PQKB)10913206 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC732114 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL732114 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483553 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316323 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039249 100 $a20110121d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEarly Greek thought$b[electronic resource] $ebefore the dawn /$fJames Luchte 210 $aLondon $cContinuum$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum studies in ancient philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-567-35331-1 311 $a1-4411-4661-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue : before the dawn -- pt. 1. Meta-philosophy of early Greek thought: The motif of the dawn, or, On gossip ; The dance of being : contexts of emergence and mytho-poetic horizons ; "War is the mother of all things" : Nietzsche and the birth of philosophy ; Aletheia and being : Heidegger contra Nietzsche ; Philosophy as tragedy (and comedy) : a note on post-structuralism -- pt. 2. Tragic thought: The question of the first : Thales and Anaximander ; Recoiling from the abyss : Anaximenes and Xenophanes ; All is flux : Heraclitus of Epheus (535-475 BC) ; Eternal return of the soul : Pythagoras of Samos ; Tragic differing : Parmenides of Elea (early fifth century) ; Love, strife and mind : Empedocles and Anaxagoras ; The divine beauty of chaos : Democritus of Thrace (460-370 BC) ; Plato in the shadow of the sublime -- Epilogue : poetics and the matheme : on Badiou. 330 $aEarly Greek Thought calls into question a longstanding mythology - operative in both the Analytic and Continental traditions - that the Pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all traditional forms of knowledge' (Badiou). Each of the variants of this mythology will be dismantled in an attempt to not only retrieve an indigenous' interpretation of early Greek thought, but also to expose the mythological character of our own contemporary meta-narratives regarding the origins' of Western', Occidental' philosophy. Using an original hermeneutical approach, Luchte excavates the context 410 0$aContinuum studies in ancient philosophy. 606 $aPre-Socratic philosophers 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPre-Socratic philosophers. 676 $a182 700 $aLuchte$b James$0936109 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457119603321 996 $aEarly Greek thought$92464026 997 $aUNINA