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ISBN:	052128645X (ISBN13: 9780521286459)
Edition Language:	English

The Art and Thought of Heraclitus

Heraclitus

Paperback | Pages: 372 pages

Rating: 4.29 | 139 Users | 9 Reviews

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This is a review of Charles Kahn’s ‘The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary’. I state this because Goodreads appears to lump all reviews of Heraclitus together and displays all of them for any edition of his fragments.

I can't rate this book because it presents a very complete and academic exigesis of the fragments. I don’t have any Greek by which to evaluate the arguments for the very involved decisions about which meaning to attribute to the few words available either directly from Heraclitus or through references to him by other writers. However, I did choose this book after reading several reviews of works on Heraclitus, as being the most accurate (i.e. presenting what Heraclitus probably meant).

Kahn first presents the original Greek and his translation en face. He has arranged the fragments thematically. He then devotes the bulk of the book to exigesis, fragment by fragment, with many references to prior academic interpretations. There are also notes.

I did enjoy the mental challenge of Heraclitus’s hyponoia, the allegories or hints that, according to Charles Kahn, are meant to prevent us from taking a lazy route to the easiest, surface interpretation of a position or philosophical statement. Kahn develops a thorough basis for his interpretation of Heraclitus’s cosmology as a unity that imposes oneness on oppositional forces or states such as day and night, summer and winter, fire and water. He also carefully develops his interpretation of Heraclitus’s views on justice, the importance what is held in common, man’s fate (i.e. his psyche’s fate) after death, wisdom, and the gods.

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Title	:	The Art and Thought of Heraclitus
Author	:	Heraclitus
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 372 pages
Published	:	March 9th 1981 by Cambridge University Press (first published December 13th 1979)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Classics. Nonfiction

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Ratings: 4.29 From 139 Users | 9 Reviews

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I initially was interested in reading this only as preparatory material for some of Hegel's work, but once I started I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this. It was interesting to see just how much influence Heraclitus had and continues to have; piecing together an overall account of his thought was made much easier thanks to the faithful translation and insightful commentary supplied by Kahn.

Pretty good.

This translation is the best I've looked at (it's called the Marcovich, I think). Heraclitus' aphorisms are truly wise and could be the basis for a religion. I've noticed the fragments are hard to find in book form. I guess some think there isn't enough there to sell a book. But these sayings are for the sensitive, and those who think as much or more than they read. I haven't read Kahn's commentary yet, but he seems well-informed.

I cannot speak for Kahn's detailed post-essay which I am skipping for now, but the introductory essay is superb at giving (intellectual, cultural) contextualization for those who need it, and the English fragments are robust while remaining poetical. Footnotes supply necessary details on the subtlety of the Greek, lost in translation. Some of my favourite fragments:"The world of the waking is one and shared, but the sleeping turn aside each into his private world"'The [Kosmos], the same for all,

if i can get my hands on a copy of this... it's gonna get read. :[

Heraclitus of Ephesus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος,c.535 c.475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the apparently riddledThis is a review of Charles Kahns The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: A New Arrangement and Translation of the Fragments with Literary and Philosophical Commentary. I state this because Goodreads appears to lump all reviews of Heraclitus together and displays all of them for any edition of his fragments.I can't rate this book because it presents a very complete and academic exigesis of the fragments. I dont have any Greek by which to evaluate the arguments for the very involved decisions about