The Figure of Nature: On Greek Origins

by John Sallis

Book Overview

Broaching an understanding of nature in Platonic thought, John Sallis goes beyond modern conceptions and provides a strategy to have recourse to the profound sense of nature operative in ancient Greek philosophy. In a rigorous and textually based account, Sallis traces the complex development of the Greek concept of nature. Beginning with the mythical vision embodied in the figure of the goddess Artemis, he reanimates the sense of nature that informs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253022886
• ISBN13: 9780253022882
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher