Folit-Weinberg Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-05163-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Cambridge Classical Studies

It is widely agreed that Parmenides invented extended deductive argumentation and the practice of demonstration, a transformative event in the history of thought. But how did he manage this seminal accomplishment? In this book, Benjamin Folit-Weinberg finally provides an answer. At the heart of this story is the image of the hodos, the road and the journey. Brilliantly deploying the tools and insights of literary criticism, conceptual history, and archaeology, Folit-Weinberg illuminates how Parmenides adopts and adapts this image from Homer, especially the Odyssey, forging from it his pioneering intellectual approaches. Reinserting Parmenides into the physical world and poetic culture of archaic Greece, Folit-Weinberg reveals both how deeply traditional and how radical was Parmenides' new way of thinking and speaking. By taking this first step toward providing a history of the concept method, this volume uncovers the genealogy of philosophy in poetry and poetic imagery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Folit-Weinberg, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Prooimia: 1. Roads: Words and Things; Parmenides the late archaic poet; Part II. Routes: 3. The hodos of Odysseus; 4. The hodos in Odyssey XII; 5. Krisis: Fragment 2; 6. Con(-)sequence: Fragment 8; Part III. Doxai: 7. Mortal Opinions.

Über Autor(innen)

Folit-Weinberg, Benjamin
Benjamin Folit-Weinberg is A. G. Leventis Research Fellow at the Institute for Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol.