A Presocratics Reader

A Presocratics Reader Selected Fragments and Testimonia

2nd Edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

Building on the virtues that made the first edition of A Presocratics Reader the most widely used sourcebook for the study of the Presocratics and Sophists, the second edition offers even more value and a wider selection of fragments from these philosophical predecessors and contemporaries of Socrates. With revised introductions, annotations, suggestions for further reading, and more, the second edition draws on the wealth of new scholarship published on these fascinating thinkers over the past decade or more, a remarkably rich period in Presocratic studies. At the volume's core, as ever, are the fragments themselves--but now in thoroughly revised and, in some cases, new translations by Richard D. McKirahan and Patricia Curd, among them those of the recently published Derveni Papyrus.

Book information

ISBN: 9781603843065
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Imprint: Hackett Publishing Company
Pub date:
Edition: 2nd Edition
DEWEY: 182
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 186
Weight: 272g
Height: 219mm
Width: 142mm
Spine width: 17mm