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Empedocles: The Extant Fragments by Empedocles 9780300024753
Booksplease Price: $137.36One of the most important Presocratic philosophers was the Sicilian Empedocles. He presented his work in the form of two hexameter poems, of which about 450 lines are extant, revealing a formidable... -
Fragments by Empedocles 9780929524061
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524061Author EmpedoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher... -
Extant Fragments by Empedocles 9781853994821
Booksplease Price: $79.40These are the extant fragments from the works of Empedocles, the Greek philosopher (c.430 B.C.) who assumed four different elements - air, water, fire and earth, and two powers - love and hate. This... -
Empedocles: An Interpretation Simon Trepanier 9780415649209
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $111.17Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles - one of the founding figures of Western philosophy - since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his... -
Empedocles Shoe by Bertolt Brecht 9780413757302
Booksplease Price: $119.01A key critical work bringing relevance to Brecht's poetry in the 21st century Brecht is increasingly recognised as one of the most important lyric voices of the 20th century. Alongside Rilke he is... -
Reconstructing Empedocles' Thought by Chiara Ferella 9781009392570
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $200.13To understand Empedocles' thought, one must view his work as a unified whole of religion and physics. Only a few interpreters, however, recognise rebirth as a positive doctrine within Empedocles'... -
The Fragments of Empedocles by William Ellery Leonard 9780359089895
RRP: $16.59Booksplease Price: $16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359089895Author William Ellery LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu... -
The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play by Friedrich Holderlin 9780791476482
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $48.22On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hoelderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first... -
The Poem of Empedocles: A text and translation with a commentary by Brad Inwood 9780802083531
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $63.42This revised edition of The Poem of Empedocles (1992) integrates substantial new material from a recently discovered papyrus and published by A. Martin and O. Primavesi. The papyrus contains evidence... -
Archaic Logic: Symbol and Structure in Heraclitus, Parmenides and Empedocles by Raymond A. Prier 9789027931559
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $143.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789027931559Author Raymond A. PrierFormat HardbackPage Count 171Imprint De Gruyter MoutonPublisher De... -
From Empedocles to Wittgenstein: Historical Essays in Philosophy by Anthony Kenny 9780199550821
RRP: $205.80Booksplease Price: $148.37From Empedocles to Wittgenstein is a collection of fifteen historical essays in philosophy, written by Sir Anthony Kenny in the early years of the 21st century. In the main they are concerned with... -
Parmenides and Empedocles: The Fragments in Verse Translation by Professor Stanley Lombardo 9781610971621
RRP: $28.43Booksplease Price: $21.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610971621Author ParmenidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher... -
Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers: Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature by Tom Mackenzie
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $166.03Of the Presocratic thinkers traditionally credited with the foundation of Greek philosophy, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles are exceptional for writing in verse. This is the first book-length,... -
Poetry and Poetics in the Presocratic Philosophers: Reading Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles as Literature by Tom Mackenzie 9781108925846
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $54.43Of the Presocratic thinkers traditionally credited with the foundation of Greek philosophy, Xenophanes, Parmenides and Empedocles are exceptional for writing in verse. This is the first book-length,... -
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition by Peter Kingsley 9780198150817
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $153.01Empedocles played a crucial role in the development of western culture; yet little is known or understood about this man, who lived in Sicily in the fifth-century BC. This is mainly becuase his... -
Empedocles Redivivus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius Myrto Garani (University of Patras, Greece) 9780415542739
RRP: $123.88Booksplease Price: $111.17Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius' debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius' applause for... -
Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle: A Reconstruction from the Fragments and Secondary Sources by Denis O'Brien 9780521100373
RRP: $113.40Booksplease Price: $110.86The cosmic cycle described in the surviving fragments of Empedocles' poem is the alternation, in endless succession, of Love and Strife. Love is the cause of happiness and unity; Strife the cause of... -
Form without Matter: Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception by Mark Eli Kalderon 9780198717904
Booksplease Price: $225.31Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study in the philosophy of perception written in the medium of historiography. He considers the phenomenology and metaphysics of sensory presentation through... -
Evolution: Genesis and Revelations: With Readings from Empedocles to Wilson by C. Leon Harris 9780873954877
Booksplease Price: $57.46In this comprehensive history of evolutionism, C. Leon Harris has combined primary source readings with clear, pertinent background information, to provide a solid basic understanding of the ways... -
Rivals in Wisdom: Early Greek Philosophical Poetry and the Invention of Philosophy by Nicolò Benzi 9781836245162
Booksplease Price: $260.95Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Rivals in Wisdom offers a fresh perspective on the longstanding question of the origins of Greek philosophy by... -
Empedoclea by Wilhelm Hollenberg 9781110801534
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781110801534Author Wilhelm HollenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint BiblioLifePublisher... -
Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9781847494528
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $20.73Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his friend the Captain and she invites her niece Ottilie to stay with them,... -
A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. XIV (Forty-Five Volumes); Empedocles-Florian by Charles Dudley Warner 9781605201757
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $73.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605201757Author Charles Dudley WarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher... -
A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol. XIV (Forty-Five Volumes); Empedocles-Florian by Charles Dudley Warner 9781605201740
Booksplease Price: $48.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605201740Author Charles Dudley WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Cosimo... -
Aristotle's Chemistry: On Coming to Be and Passing Away Meteorology 1.1–3, 4.1–12 by Aristotle 9781647920982
RRP: $161.68Booksplease Price: $113.59This new translation of On Coming to Be and Passing Away and Meteorology 1 and 4 fits seamlessly with the other volumes in the New Hackett Aristotle Series, enabling Anglophone readers to study these... -
Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry by Jenny Strauss Clay 9789004373488
RRP: $312.90Booksplease Price: $266.30In ancient didactic poetry, poets frequently make use of imagery - similes, metaphors, acoustic images, models, exempla, fables, allegory, personifications, and other tropes - as a means to... -
Aristotle's Chemistry: On Coming to Be and Passing Away Meteorology 1.1–3, 4.1–12 by Aristotle 9781647920890
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $38.56This new translation of On Coming to Be and Passing Away and Meteorology 1 and 4 fits seamlessly with the other volumes in the New Hackett Aristotle Series, enabling Anglophone readers to study these... -
The Thinking Root: The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy by Dan Beachy-Quick
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45Acclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and... -
Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology by F O′Gorman 9780631234357
RRP: $279.20Booksplease Price: $262.10Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including... -
The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy Victoria Wohl 9780520413320
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Presocratic philosophers,... -
Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology Francis O'Gorman 9780631234364
RRP: $73.40Booksplease Price: $72.47Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology is a fully annotated and illustrated collection of Victorian poetry. Features a generous selection of work by all the major figures of the age, including... -
Amor belli: Love and Strife in Lucan's Bellum civile by Giulio Celotto 9780472132874
Booksplease Price: $132.83Compelled by the emperor Nero to commit suicide at age 25 after writing uncomplimentary poems, Latin poet Lucan nevertheless left behind a significant body of work, including the Bellum Civile (Civil... -
A Companion to Ancient Philosophy by Sean D Kirkland 9780810137868
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88A Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of essays on a broad range of themes and figures spanning the entire period extending from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic... -
Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis: Rings and Voids Pablo Lerner (Psychoanalyst in private practice, France) 9781032244778
RRP: $65.08Booksplease Price: $60.14In Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis, Pablo Lerner questions, and takes a step beyond, the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its emphasis on the sovereignty of language and... -
Education and Intercultural Identity: A dialogue between Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino Portera by Zygmunt Bauman
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $103.97Education and Intercultural Identity offers a dialogue between influential authors Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino Portera that reflects on and discusses contemporary events and issues relating to the... -
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity by David Sedley 9780520260061
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $59.96The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks... -
Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth by Gananath Obeyesekere 9780520232433
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $57.29With "Imagining Karma", Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of... -
The Harvest of Tragedy by Thomas Rice Henn
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $27.26Upon initial publication in 1956, this book was an attempt to re-state certain problems concerning the aesthetics and ethics of the tragic form; to examine these in relation to contemporary work in... -
Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater: Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation by SarahGlendon Lyons
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78This book argues that Walter Pater and Algernon Swinburne draw upon the legacy of Romantic Hellenism in order to explore the possibilities of a secular model of enchantment and to complicate the... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin 9780008333409
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.39A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and...