UID:
almahu_9949474274502882
Format:
1 online resource (228 p.)
ISBN:
9783110306507
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Studia Praesocratica , 4
Content:
The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations, to the point that Kahn (1974) suggested that, instead of another thesis on Pythagoreanism, it would be preferable to assess traditions with the aim of producing a good historiographical presentation. This almost fourty-year-old observation by Kahn, directs the author of this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological brand of work, that is, one neither exclusively devoted to the exegesis of sources such as Philolaus, Archytas or even of one of the Hellenistic Lives nor even to the theoretical approach of one of the themes that received specific contributions from Pythagoreanism, such as mathematics, cosmology, politics or theories of the soul. Instead, this monograph sets out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism's image, facing one of the central problems that characterizes Pythagoreanism more than other ancient philosophical movements: the drastically shifting terrain of the criticism of the sources. The goal of this historiographical approach is to embrace Pythagoreanism in its entirety, through - and not in spite of - its complex articulation across more than a millennium.
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Frontmatter --
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Foreword --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Note --
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Abbreviations --
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Introduction --
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1 History of criticism: from Zeller to Kingsley --
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2 Pythagoreanism as a historiographical category --
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3 Immortality of the soul and metempsýchōsis --
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4 Numbers --
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Conclusion --
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Bibliography --
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Index of Topics --
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Index of Passages --
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Index of Names
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Philosophy 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238488
In:
DGBA Philosophy 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636949
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317350
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE CLASSICAL STUDIES 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317107
In:
E-BOOK PAKET ALTERTUMSWISS. 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317091
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110306279
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
DOI:
10.1515/9783110306507
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110306507
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110306507
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