Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments

by Heraclitus

Book Overview

This work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and treats in passing others that were generally accepted as genuine but here considered paraphrased or spurious. In securing his text, Professor Kirk has taken into account all the ancient testimonies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521136679
• ISBN13: 9780521136679
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"