ISBN:
9780415101707
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (536 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Presocratic Reflexivity : The Construction of Philosophical
DDC:
182
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this third volume of Logological Investigations Sandywell continues his sociological reconstruction of reflexive thought with reference to pre-Socratic philosophy and science and their socio-political context
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE; PRESOCRATIC THOUGHT AND THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN EUROPEAN REFLECTION; The construction of the cosmos in Early Greek philosophy; Language and 'the epoch of the Logos'; The Ionian revolution in cosmological thinking; Greek cosmology as a form of life; THALES AND THE ORIGINS OF IONIAN COSMOLOGY; The golden triangle of Ionia and the Odyssean spirit; The discovery of reflexivity; Self, self-knowledge, and reflexivity; The sociological origins of philosophy and cultures of critical discourse
Description / Table of Contents:
A comparative analysis of ancient institutions of reflexivityConclusion: the concept of a philosophical movement; ANAXIMANDER'S COSMOS; The text of Anaximander: the Apeiron-Fragment; Anaximander's discourse; Anaximander's cosmos; The cosmic vortex; After Anaximander; ANAXIMENES' PNEUMATOLOGY; Anaximenes' cosmos: Anaximenes as a natural philosopher?; Natural philosophy as critical theory; The self-deconstruction of Anaximenes' text; A reflexive pneumatology?; THE PYTHAGOREAN FORM OF LIFE; The ontotheology of Number: all is Number; Pythagorean videology; The Pythagorean soul and metempsychosis
Description / Table of Contents:
Philosophia and the three livesThe videological form of life; Conclusion: The elements of Classical videological culture; HERACLITUS, LOGOLOGIST: THE REFLEXIVE COSMOS OF HERACLITUS; Critical reflexivity: thinking as polemos; Peri Phusis; Logological configurations; The Logos teaching; Interpretations of the Logos-concept in Heraclitus; Language-play in Heraclitus' text; The reflexive psyche in Heraclitus; Logos and Kosmos; Process philosophy; ELEATIC ONTOLOGY FROM XENOPHANES TO PARMENIDES AND BEYOND; Xenophanes and the unity of God; Xenophanes' critical reflexivity
Description / Table of Contents:
Xenophanes' natural theologyFrom Xenophanes to Parmenides; Parmenides and the unity of Being; Introduction; The logological presuppositions of Parmenidean ontology; Parmenides' reflexive Logos; Melissus' revision; Against plurality; Introduction; Conclusion: the genealogy of logic; PLURALISTS: EMPEDOCLES, ANAXAGORAS, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF GREEK ATOMISM; Empedocles; The limitations of human experience; The fourfold roots of Being; Eternal cyclical change: the One from the Many, the Many from the One; The soul and God; Anaxagoras; Anaxagoras' general philosophical outlook
Description / Table of Contents:
Nous as the World-MindThe Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus; Democritus; The Democritean vision of the atomic universe; Conclusion: ancient and modern Atomism; Notes; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index;
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