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PublisherParmenides Publishing

ISBN-101930972113

ISBN-139781930972117

eBay Product ID (ePID)108167181

Product Key Features

Number of Pages458 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRoute of Parmenides : A New Revised Edition with a New Introduction, Three Additional Essays and a Previously Unpublished Paper by Gregory Vlastos

Publication Year2008

SubjectHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPhilosophy

AuthorAlexander P. D. Mourelatos

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight27.4 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2007-034635

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsThe book by Mourelatos is a mandatory reference for anyone who wants and intends to dedicate himself to the studies on Parmenides of Elea (sec. VI-V a.C), by the meticulous philological work, the analytic severity, the speculative breadth, the amplitude of the bibliographical debate with the critical contemporary one, that is, by the erudition that reveals in sciences of the antiquity. Everything that is placed here is to service and articulate the multiple layers of significance that is enclosed in the 116 verses that arrived of the poem of Parmenides, one of the biggest texts of the western philosophical tradition"". - Journal of Ancient Philosophy, " [ T h e R o u t e ] constitutes a major signpost on the road to understanding not just the great Eleatic thinker but the whole trajectory of early Greek philosophical thought . It is a cause of serious joy that it is now available to a new generation of scholars." -Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University, "The re-publication of Kenneth Sayre's "Plato's Late Ontology" is most welcome, for it is a seminal work and its implications for our understanding of Plato have yet to be fully appreciated.", " [ T h e R o u t e ] constitutes a major signpost on the road to understanding not just the great Eleatic thinker but the whole trajectory of early Greek philosophical thought . It is a cause of serious joy that it is now available to a new generation of scholars." --Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University, " [ T h e R o u t e ] constitutes a major signpost on the road to understanding not just the great Eleatic thinker but the whole trajectory of early Greek philosophical thought . It is a cause of serious joy that it is now available to a new generation of scholars." --Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University

TitleLeadingThe

Grade FromCollege Sophomore

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal182.3

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Edition DescriptionRevised edition,Expurgated edition

SynopsisDecisively alters the status of the question of Plato's ? so-called unwritten teachings, ? breaking a new path into textual and conceptual terrain that has gone largely unexplored by modern commentary., Mourelatos' study of the fragments of Parmenides' poem combines traditional philological reconstruction with the approaches of literary criticism and philosophical analysis in order to reveal the thought structure and expressive unity of the best preserved and most important, influential, and coherent text of Greek philosophy before Plato. Through philosophical, philological, and literary analysis, Mourelatos examines the morphology of images and metaphors in Parmenides' text with the aim of articulating and interpreting the poem's key concepts and component arguments. Relevant antecedents and parallels from the tradition of epic poetry, especially from Homer's Odyssey, are explored in depth., In this careful study of the fragments of Parmenides' hexameter poem, "On Nature", Alexander P.D. Mourelatos combines traditional philological reconstruction with the approaches of literary criticism and philosophical analysis to reveal the thought structure and expressive unity of the best preserved, most important and coherent text of Greek philosophy before Plato.

LC Classification NumberB235.P24M64 2008