DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Ancient Philosophy

Textual Paths and Historical Explorations

Lorenzo Perilli editor Daniela P Taormina editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:7th Dec '17

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

This hardback is available in another edition too:

Ancient Philosophy cover

‘We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece’, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote. It is in Greek that the questions which shaped the destiny of Western culture were asked, and so were the first attempts at an answer, and the search for a method of investigation. This book tries to rediscover the propulsive force that for over two millennia spread, and still lives in our system of thought. By systematically quoting the very words of the leading actors and by tracing their sources, it leads the reader along a path where they will be able to observe the establishment of philosophical ideas and language, in an updated and balanced picture of archaic lore, of the thought of the classical and hellenistic ages, and of the philosophy of late antiquity. The book looks closely at the progress of scientific thought and at its increasing autonomy, while following the evolution of the fruitful yet problematic relationship between the Greek world and the Near East.

This book gives an excellent overview of the development of philosophy in the classical world. Perilli and Taormina have put together an innovative history of ancient philosophy.

Teun Tieleman, Utrecht University, Netherlands

ISBN: 9781138680999

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1292g

806 pages