Beschrijving
“This hauntingly beautiful study recovers the boundlessness of Presocratic thought. In close readings of five early Greek cosmologists—Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus—Victoria Wohl invites us to suspend our preconceptions about poetry and philosophy in order to unfold the poetics of their worldmaking projects. She makes a powerful case for tarrying with the language of these thinkers not as a vehicle for transcendence but as a mode of thinking in the thick of things.\
