
Parmenides of Elea
A Verse Translation with Interpretative Essays and Commentary to the Text
Martin J. Henn(Author)
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 30. June 2003
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-275-97933-1 (ISBN)
Description
Martin J. Henn's Parmenides of Elea offers to the reader a reinvigorating verse translation of the Diels and Kranz B-Fragments of Parmenides cast in rhyming couplet iambic pentameter. Placing Parmenides in his proper historical context by taking seriously the impact of Persian Zoroastrianism on his developing monism, Henn supplies precise interpretation of the most difficult and vexing of Parmenides's fragments, while also providing reliable philosophical analysis of the many seeming contradictions latent in the text.
The interpretive essays form a unique contribution to studies of this work, exploring such issues as the sprawling influences of Persian Zoroastrian dualism, literary parallels and contrasts with Hesiod's Theogony, and the radical antithesis between a finite linear and an infinite closed-loop model of space and time. Overall, Henn's work represents a new model for study of a key element of philosophical literature, making it a highly significant addition to the scholarship on the subject.
The interpretive essays form a unique contribution to studies of this work, exploring such issues as the sprawling influences of Persian Zoroastrian dualism, literary parallels and contrasts with Hesiod's Theogony, and the radical antithesis between a finite linear and an infinite closed-loop model of space and time. Overall, Henn's work represents a new model for study of a key element of philosophical literature, making it a highly significant addition to the scholarship on the subject.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
411 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-97933-1 (9780275979331)
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A Verse Translation with Interpretative Essays and Commentary to the Text
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MARTIN J. HENN is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas.
Content
Parmenides and His Predecessors
Translation of the Diels B-Fragments
The Question of Being and the Dialectic of Alternative Paths
Fragment B 3: The Metaphysical Unity of Thinking and Being
Parmenides' Closed-Loop Concepts of Time and the Illusion of Linear Time-Consciousness
Necessity, Possibility, and Contingency
The Teachings of the Goddess
The Diels & Kranz Greek Test
Commentary to the Greek
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Translation of the Diels B-Fragments
The Question of Being and the Dialectic of Alternative Paths
Fragment B 3: The Metaphysical Unity of Thinking and Being
Parmenides' Closed-Loop Concepts of Time and the Illusion of Linear Time-Consciousness
Necessity, Possibility, and Contingency
The Teachings of the Goddess
The Diels & Kranz Greek Test
Commentary to the Greek
Select Bibliography