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Anaximander in Context: New Studies in the Origins of Greek Philosophy

Dirk L. Couprie & Robert Hahn & Gérard Naddaf

PublisherSUNY Press
PublishedJan 1, 2003
LanguageEnglish

Promoting a new, broadly interdisciplinary horizon for future studies in early Greek philosophy, Dirk L. Couprie, Robert Hahn, and Gerard Naddaf establish the cultural context in which Anaximanders thought developed and in which the origins of Greek philosophy unfolded in its earliest stages. In order to better understand Anaximanders achievement, the authors call our attention to the historical, social, political, technological, cosmological, astronomical, and observational contexts of his thought. Anaximander in Context brings to the forefront of modern debates the importance of cultural context, and the indispensability of images to clarify ancient ideologies.