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The Presocratic philosophers, writing in Greece in the sixth and fifth
centuries BCE, invented new ways of thinking about human life, the
natural world, and structures of reality. They also developed novel ways
of using language to express their thought. In this book, Victoria Wohl
examines these innovations and the productive relation between them in
the work of five figures: Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles,
Anaxagoras, and Democritus.
Bringing these thinkers into
conversation with modern critical theorists on questions of shared
concern, Wohl argues for the poetic sophistication of their work and the
inextricable convergence of their aesthetic form and philosophical
content. In addition to offering original readings of these fascinating
figures and robust strategies for interpreting their fragmentary,
rebarbative texts, this book invites readers to communicate across
entrenched divisions between literature and philosophy and between
antiquity and modernity.
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