Method and metaphysics : essays in ancient philosophy I /
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| Author / Creator: | Barnes, Jonathan, 1942- |
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press : Oxford University Press, 2011. |
| Description: | xi, 621 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English Ancient Greek |
| Series: | Essays in ancient philosophy / Jonathan Barnes ; 1 Barnes, Jonathan, 1942- Essays in ancient philosophy ; 1. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8779187 |
| Summary: | Method and Metaphysics presents twenty-six essays in ancient philosophy by Jonathan Barnes, one of the most admired and influential scholars of his generation. The essays span four decades of his career, and are drawn from a wide variety of sources: many of them will be relatively unknown even to specialists in ancient philosophy. Several essays are now translated from the original French and made available in English for the first time; others have been substantially revised for republication here. The volume opens with eight essays about the interpretation of ancient philosophical texts, and about the relationship between philosophy and its history. The next five essays examine the methods of ancient philosophers. The third section comprises thirteen essays about metaphysical topics, from the Presocratics to the late Platonists. This collection will be a rich feast for students and scholars of ancient philosophy. |
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| Item Description: | "This volume and its companions together contain most of the papers I have published on ancient philosophy over the last forty odd years. Short reviews of books have, almost all, been excluded; so have articles for encyclopaedias and the like; and also one or two items which repeat or anticipate what I have written elsewhere. The pieces are organized thematically rather than chronologically"--Preface, p. [ix]. "The essays which were originally published in French (and in one case in Italian) are here done into English"--Preface, p. [ix]. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 621 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [561]-580) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199577514 019957751X |