Beginning of Knowledge

by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Book Overview

This book brings together nearly all of Gadamer s previously published but never translated essays on the Presocratics. Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological investigation of the Heraclitus fragments (1974 and 1990), he then moves on to a discussion of the Greek Atomists (1935) and the Presocratic cosmologists (1964). In the last two essays (1978 and 1994/95), Gadamer elaborates on the profound debt that modern scientific thinking owes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826414591
• ISBN13: 9780826414595
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.3"