
A Presocratics Reader
Selected Fragments and Testimonia
Patricia Curd(Editor)
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
2nd Edition
Published on 15. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-60384-305-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Series
Edition
2
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA
United States
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
none
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
180 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60384-305-8 (9781603843058)
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Persons
Patricia Curd is Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University.
Richard D. McKirahan is Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College.
Richard D. McKirahan is Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College.