| Beginning of Knowledge Contributor(s): Gadamer, Hans-Georg (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826414591 ISBN-13: 9780826414595 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $42.52 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: This book brings together nearly all of Gadamer's previously published but never translated essays on the Presocratics. Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological investigation of the Heraclitus fragments (1974 and 1990), he then moves on to a discussion of the Greek Atomists (1935) and the Presocratic cosmologists (1964). In the last two essays (1978 and 1994/95), Gadamer elaborates on the profound debt that modern scientific thinking owes to the Greek philosophical tradition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical |
| Dewey: 182 |
| Series: Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.38" W x 8.26" (0.43 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book brings together nearly all of Gadamer s previously published but never translated essays on the Presocratics. Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological investigation of the Heraclitus fragments (1974 and 1990), he then moves on to a discussion of the Greek Atomists (1935) and the Presocratic cosmologists (1964). In the last two essays (1978 and 1994/95), Gadamer elaborates on the profound debt that modern scientific thinking owes to the Greek philosophical tradition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gadamer, Hans-Georg: - Hans-Georg Gadamer was born on 11 February 1900 and died on 13 March 2002. He was the author, most notably, of Truth and Method, and, more recently, of The Beginning of Philosophy and The Beginning of Knowledge. |