{"product_id":"breaking-light-toward-a-poetics-of-opacity-in-early-greek-thinking-9798855807370","title":"Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): D. M. Spitzer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscloses the ways in which opacity and relation in the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes depart from the predominant understanding of philosophy as clarity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBreaking Light\u003c\/i\u003e D. M. Spitzer discloses the ways in which opacity and relation orient the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eBreaking Light\u003c\/i\u003e departs from a predominant understanding of \u003ci\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/i\u003e as constituted by the principle of clarity-a principle already operative in Plato's and Aristotle's interpretations of the shadowy figures from the Greek east identified as the first philosophers, the Milesians. Drawing on \u003ci\u003eopacity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003erelation\u003c\/i\u003e as articulated by Martinican thinker �douard Glissant and enhanced by the insights of Martin Heidegger and contemporary feminisms in the (trans-)continental tradition(s), \u003ci\u003eBreaking Light\u003c\/i\u003e lets the central terms orienting Milesian thinking-\u003ci\u003eὕδωρ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eἄπειρον\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eἀήρ\u003c\/i\u003e-radiate with the energies of provisionality, uncertainty, and abundance-of opacity. A comparative approach attends to figures like Pherekydes and texts from Egypt and the Near East that are understudied in the continental traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47773261791383,"sku":"9798855807370","price":11926.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798855807370.webp?v=1777978480","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/breaking-light-toward-a-poetics-of-opacity-in-early-greek-thinking-9798855807370","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}