The Beginning of Knowledge

Hans-Georg Gadamer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-9433-1 (ISBN)

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The Beginning of Knowledge brings together almost all of Gadamer’s essays on the Presocratics. In each of the essays Gadamer discusses the origins of knowledge in the western philosophical tradition. Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological investigation of the Heraclitus fragments he moves on to a discussion of the Greek Atomists and the Presocratic cosmologists. In the final two essays he elaborates on the profound debt that modern science owes to the Greeks and shows how their works have shaped modern day physics, mathematics and medicine. The philosophers discussed include Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Anaximander, Heraclitus and Parmenides. This is a major work from one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers.

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) was a celebrated and influential continental philosopher. He spent the majority of his teaching career at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he became emeritus professor in 1968. He is the author of The Beginning of Philosophy and Truth and Method.

Translator's Preface

Author's Preface

1. On the Tradition of Heraclitus

2. Hearaclitus Studies

3. Ancient Atomic Theory

4. Plato and Presocratic Cosmology

5. Greek Philosophy and Modern Thought

6. Natural Science and the Concept of Nature

Publication History

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Revelations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	197 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-4742-9433-2 / 1474294332
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-9433-1 / 9781474294331
Zustand	Neuware