Presocratic Reflexivity: The Construction of Philosophical Discourse 600-450 B.C.: Logological Investigations (Logological Investigations, Vol 3)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Abbreviations......Page 13
INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE......Page 18
PRESOCRATIC THOUGHT AND THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN EUROPEAN REFLECTION......Page 45
The construction of the cosmos in Early Greek philosophy......Page 57
Language and 'the epoch of the Logos'......Page 76
The Ionian revolution in cosmological thinking......Page 78
Greek cosmology as a form of life......Page 82
THALES AND THE ORIGINS OF IONIAN COSMOLOGY......Page 92
The golden triangle of Ionia and the Odyssean spirit......Page 95
The discovery of reflexivity......Page 109
Self, self-knowledge, and reflexivity......Page 115
The sociological origins of philosophy and cultures of critical discourse......Page 119
A comparative analysis of ancient institutions of reflexivity......Page 139
Conclusion: the concept of a philosophical movement......Page 147
ANAXIMANDER'S COSMOS......Page 153
The text of Anaximander: the Apeiron-Fragment......Page 155
Anaximander's discourse......Page 157
Anaximander's cosmos......Page 172
The cosmic vortex......Page 180
After Anaximander......Page 183
ANAXIMENES' PNEUMATOLOGY......Page 189
Anaximenes' cosmos: Anaximenes as a natural philosopher?......Page 191
Natural philosophy as critical theory......Page 197
The self-deconstruction of Anaximenes' text......Page 198
A reflexive pneumatology?......Page 202
THE PYTHAGOREAN FORM OF LIFE......Page 206
The ontotheology of Number: all is Number......Page 214
Pythagorean videology......Page 226
The Pythagorean soul and metempsychosis......Page 231
Philosophia and the three lives......Page 237
The videological form of life......Page 238
Conclusion: The elements of Classical videological culture......Page 246
HERACLITUS, LOGOLOGIST: THE REFLEXIVE COSMOS OF HERACLITUS......Page 251
Critical reflexivity: thinking as polemos......Page 253
Peri Phusis......Page 258
Logological configurations......Page 261
The Logos teaching......Page 265
Interpretations of the Logos-concept in Heraclitus......Page 267
Language-play in Heraclitus' text......Page 273
The reflexive psyche in Heraclitus......Page 284
Logos and Kosmos......Page 292
Process philosophy......Page 297
ELEATIC ONTOLOGY FROM XENOPHANES TO PARMENIDES AND BEYOND......Page 301
Xenophanes and the unity of God......Page 302
Xenophanes' critical reflexivity......Page 303
Xenophanes' natural theology......Page 308
From Xenophanes to Parmenides......Page 310
Parmenides and the unity of Being......Page 312
Introduction......Page 313
The logological presuppositions of Parmenidean ontology......Page 329
Parmenides' reflexive Logos......Page 349
Melissus' revision......Page 353
Against plurality......Page 357
Introduction......Page 358
Conclusion: the genealogy of logic......Page 366
PLURALISTS: EMPEDOCLES, ANAXAGORAS, AND THE BEGINNINGS OF GREEK ATOMISM......Page 369
Empedocles......Page 371
The limitations of human experience......Page 373
The fourfold roots of Being......Page 375
Eternal cyclical change: the One from the Many, the Many from the One......Page 378
The soul and God......Page 380
Anaxagoras......Page 382
Anaxagoras' general philosophical outlook......Page 384
Nous as the World-Mind......Page 389
The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus......Page 394
Democritus......Page 396
The Democritean vision of the atomic universe......Page 397
Conclusion: ancient and modern Atomism......Page 405
Notes......Page 410
Bibliography......Page 480
Name index......Page 514
Subject index......Page 519