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Author:   Dr James Luchte (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of the Humanities, China)
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9781441146618

ISBN 10:   144114661
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 September 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Prologue: Before the Dawn \ Acknowledgments \ Dating: A ‘Rough Sketch' \ Part 1: Meta-Philosophy of Early Greek Thought \ 1. The Motif of the Dawn, or on Gossip \ 2. The Dance of Being: Contexts of Emergence and Mytho-Poetic Horizon \ 3. ‘War is the mother of all things': Nietzsche and the Birth of Philosophy \ 4. Aletheia and Being - Heidegger contra Nietzsche\ 5. Philosophy as Tragedy (and Comedy) - A Note on Post-structuralism \ Part 2: Tragic Thought \ 6. The Question of the First: Thales and Anaximander \ 7. Recoiling from the Abyss: Anaximenes and Xenophanes \ 8. ‘All is Flux' - Heraclitus of Epheus (535-475 BC) \ 9. Eternal Recurrence of the Soul: Pythagoras of Samos \ 10. Tragic Differing - Parmenides of Elea (Early Fifth Century) \ 11. Love, Strife and Mind - Empedocles and Anaxagoras \ 12. The Divine Beauty of Chaos - Democritus of Thrace (460-370 BC) \ 13. Plato in the Shadow of the Sublime \ Epilogue: Poetics and the Matheme \ Notes \ References and Further Reading \ Index

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James Luchte is Lecturer of Philosophy and Programme Co-ordinator of the MA in European Philosophy at the University of Wales, Trinity St. David, in Wales. His other publications include The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche (translator), Pythagoras and the Doctrine of Transmigration, Heidegger's Early Philosophy: The Phenomenology of Ecstatic Temporality, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise (editor) and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: A Reader's Guide (all Continuum). He has also published numerous articles on various topics in European Philosophy.

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