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Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments
Heraclitus
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Paperback. A text and study of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Editor(s): Kirk, G. S. Num Pages: 444 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 32. Weight in Grams: 606.
This work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and treats in passing others that were generally accepted as genuine but here considered paraphrased or spurious. In securing his text, Professor Kirk has taken into account all the ancient testimonies, and in his critical work he attached particular importance to the context in which each fragment is set. To each he gives a selective apparatus, a literal ... Read more
This work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and treats in passing others that were generally accepted as genuine but here considered paraphrased or spurious. In securing his text, Professor Kirk has taken into account all the ancient testimonies, and in his critical work he attached particular importance to the context in which each fragment is set. To each he gives a selective apparatus, a literal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521136679
SKU
V9780521136679
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