num_pages: 148
description: This book brings together nearly all of GadamerÆs 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 to the Greek philosophical tradition.
language: English
title: The Beginning of Knowledge
titlecomplete: The Beginning of Knowledge
genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Continuum