Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers, Part 1

Description: Early Greek Philosophy, Volume II by Glenn W. Most, André Laks Volume II of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy presents preliminary chapters on ancient doxography, the cosmological and moral background, and includes the early Ionian thinkers Pherecydes, Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Dielss groundbreaking work, as well as from later editions: it renders explicit the materials thematic organization; it includes a selection from such related bodies of evidence as archaic poetry, classical drama, and the Hippocratic corpus; and it presents an overview of the reception of these thinkers until the end of antiquity. Volume I contains introductory and reference materials essential for using all other parts of the edition. Volumes II–III include chapters on ancient doxography, background, and the Ionians from Pherecydes to Heraclitus. Volumes IV–V present western Greek thinkers from the Pythagoreans to Hippo. Volumes VI–VII comprise later philosophical systems and their aftermath in the fifth and early fourth centuries. Volumes VIII–IX present fifth-century reflections on language, rhetoric, ethics, and politics (the so-called sophists and Socrates) and conclude with an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama. Author Biography André Laks is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Paris–Sorbonne, and Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City. Glenn W. Most is Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Review André Laks and Glenn W. Most have made available to the world of scholarship in early Greek philosophy a resource of immense value. Every study of a thinker or of an issue within the thematic ambit of Early Greek Philosophy must henceforth start by canvassing and taking into account the appropriate selections in the Loeb set. -- Alexander P. D. Mourelatos * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *In brief, André Laks and Glenn Most give us a brilliant and beautiful reference work that can, at the same time, be easily enough read straight through. And spending a few months doing so gives the reader almost all that she needs (perhaps along with Loeb #258, Greek Elegiac Poetry) to reconstruct for herself the origins of the discipline of philosophy. I should want any graduate student or colleague in ancient philosophy or intellectual history to acquire and make their way through it. -- Christopher Moore * Classical Journal *The publication of the Loeb Classical Librarys nine-volume set, Early Greek Philosophy, gives us a new edition of the original texts, with fresh translations. It is a monumental achievement—the result of many years of dedicated work on the part of the two editors/translators André Laks and Glenn W. Most… We owe a profound debt of gratitude to the editors/translators for their thorough and impeccable scholarship, and to the publishers for their usual high standards of production. If you can afford them, dont hesitate: you will be all the richer for having these volumes on your shelves. -- Jeremy Naydler * Minerva *The publication of a Loeb Classical Library edition of the evidence for early Greek philosophy is a major event in classical scholarship… The editors and their assistants are to be commended for their exemplary execution of such a vast and difficult task. They have succeeded in producing what is far and away the best available edition of the texts of the early Greek philosophers with accompanying English translation. -- John Palmer * Arion * Review Quote The publication of the Loeb Classical Librarys nine-volume set, Early Greek Philosophy , gives us a new edition of the original texts, with fresh translations. It is a monumental achievement--the result of many years of dedicated work on the part of the two editors/translators Andr Details ISBN0674996895 Short Title EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY VOLUME Pages 400 Publisher Harvard University Press Series Loeb Classical Library Language English Translator Andre Laks ISBN-10 0674996895 ISBN-13 9780674996892 Media Book Format Hardcover Series Number 525 Year 2016 Imprint Harvard University Press Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Edited by Andre Lacks DEWEY 182 Author André Laks Illustrations illustrations Affiliation Princeton University New Jersey Translated from Greek UK Release Date 2016-10-31 Publication Date 2016-10-31 NZ Release Date 2016-10-31 US Release Date 2016-10-31 Audience Undergraduate AU Release Date 2016-10-30 Subtitle Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers, Part 1 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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