A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking

Kenneth Maly

ISBN 10: 1487556071 / ISBN 13: 9781487556075

Published by University of Toronto Press, 2024

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A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking | Kenneth Maly | Buch | New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 2024 | University of Toronto Press | EAN 9781487556075 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487556071
• ISBN 13: 9781487556075
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 160W x 238H x 33D millimeters 160 millimeters width by 238 millimeters height by 33 millimeters depth
• Weight: 748 grams
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Synopsis

A Refreshing and Rethinking Retrieval of Greek Thinking presents a rereading and rethinking of Greek philosophy in an attempt to retrieve an essential thread in Greek thinking that has been covered over for many centuries – beginning with the late Greeks, then Christianity, and then rationalism – and misrepresented by mistranslations from the seventeenth century onward. Using Heidegger’s work with Greek thinking as a springboard, the book shows how the covering over of this essential thread happened.

Kenneth Maly provides a frame by which those not trained in philosophy and phenomenology of experience can grasp the wider import of this rethinking of Greek philosophy. The book delves deep into key questions, preparing readers for extensive and more technical work with the key Greek words and their meanings, hidden for centuries. It includes a significant investigation of how this task requires a different way of language, how early Western thinking mirrors non-Western Daoism and Buddhism, and how quantum physics gets to the same place in its "philosophy," with an emphasis on the work of David Bohm. In doing so, the book reveals how Daoism, Buddhism, the quantum potential of quantum physics, and Heidegger’s being-beyng are all mirrored in Greek philosophy, above all in early Greek thinking.

About the Author

Kenneth Maly is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.