In Search of Pythagoreanism
Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category
Seiten
2013
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-030627-9 (ISBN)
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-030627-9 (ISBN)
Begleitend zu den Editionsbänden der Reihe Traditio Praesocratica, in der Texte frühgriechischer Naturphilosophen in kritischer Ausgabe mit Übersetzung erscheinen, werden in der Reihe Studia Praesocratica Kommentare, Monographien und Sammelbände zur frühgriechischen Philosophie und ihrer Doxographie veröffentlicht.
The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations, to the point that Kahn (1974) suggested that, instead of another thesis on Pythagoreanism, it would be preferable to assess traditions with the aim of producing a good historiographical presentation. This almost fourty-year-old observation by Kahn, directs the author of this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological brand of work, that is, one neither exclusively devoted to the exegesis of sources such as Philolaus, Archytas or even of one of the Hellenistic Lives nor even to the theoretical approach of one of the themes that received specific contributions from Pythagoreanism, such as mathematics, cosmology, politics or theories of the soul. Instead, this monograph sets out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism’s image, facing one of the central problems that characterizes Pythagoreanism more than other ancient philosophical movements: the drastically shifting terrain of the criticism of the sources. The goal of this historiographical approach is to embrace Pythagoreanism in its entirety, through - and not in spite of - its complex articulation across more than a millennium.
The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations, to the point that Kahn (1974) suggested that, instead of another thesis on Pythagoreanism, it would be preferable to assess traditions with the aim of producing a good historiographical presentation. This almost fourty-year-old observation by Kahn, directs the author of this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological brand of work, that is, one neither exclusively devoted to the exegesis of sources such as Philolaus, Archytas or even of one of the Hellenistic Lives nor even to the theoretical approach of one of the themes that received specific contributions from Pythagoreanism, such as mathematics, cosmology, politics or theories of the soul. Instead, this monograph sets out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism’s image, facing one of the central problems that characterizes Pythagoreanism more than other ancient philosophical movements: the drastically shifting terrain of the criticism of the sources. The goal of this historiographical approach is to embrace Pythagoreanism in its entirety, through - and not in spite of - its complex articulation across more than a millennium.
Gabriele Cornelli, University of Brasília, Brazil.
"This brief but from now on fundamental book opens a new path for research in the search for Pythagoreanism."
David Hernández in: BMCR 2014.10.22
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.4.2013 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studia Praesocratica ; 4 |
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike |
| Schlagworte | Historiography of Ancient Thought • History of Ancient Philosophy • Philosophie der Antike • Presocratics • Pythagoras • Pythagoras; Pythagoreanism; History of Ancient Philosophy; Presocratics; Historiography of Ancient Thought • Pythagoreanism • Pythagoreismus • Vorsokratiker |
| ISBN-10 | 3-11-030627-1 / 3110306271 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-11-030627-9 / 9783110306279 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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