Robert Hahn

Anaximander and the Architects

The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses textual and archaeological evidence to argue that emerging Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies were crucial to the origins and development of Greek philosophy. Anaximander and the Architects opens a previously unexplored avenue into Presocratic philosophy-the technology of monumental architecture. The evidence, coming directly from sixth century B.C.E. building sites and bypassing Aristotle, shows how the architects and their projects supplied their Ionian communities with a sprouting vision of natural order governed by structural laws. Their technological innovations and design techniques formed the core of an experimental science and promoted a rational, not mythopoetical, discourse central to our understanding of the context in which early Greek philosophy emerged. Anaximander's prose book and his rationalizing mentality are illuminated in surprising ways by appeal to the ongoing, extraordinary projects of the archaic architects and their practical techniques.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780791447932
• ISBN-10: 0791447936
• Artikelnr.: 21322448

Autorenporträt

At Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Robert Hahn is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Ancient Legacies Program, through which he leads traveling seminars to Greece, Turkey, and Egypt. He is the author of Archaeology and the Origins of Philosophy; Anaximander in Context: New Studies in the Origins of Greek Philosophy (with Dirk L. Couprie and Gerard Naddaf); and Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy, all published by SUNY Press.