voile d'Isis: Essai sur l'histoire de l'idee de Nature

Name: voile d'Isis: Essai sur l'histoire de l'idee de Nature
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ISBN: 9780674030497

ISBN-10: 0674030494

ISBN-13: 9780674030497

Edition: 2006

Authors: Pierre Hadot, Michael Chase

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Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words. Over time, Hadot finds, "Nature loves to hide" has meant that all that lives tends to die; that Nature wraps herself in myths; and (for Heidegger) that Being…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Pierre Hadot was Professor Emeritus, CollÃ¨ge de France. His books include Philosophy as a Way of Life and Plotinus.



Preface


Prologue at Ephesus: An Enigmatic Saying



The Veil of Death



Heraclitus' Aphorism: ""What Is Born Tends to Disappear""



The Veil of Nature



From Phusis to Nature



Secrets of the Gods and Secrets of Nature



""Nature Loves to Hide""



Heraclitus' Aphorism and Allegorical Exegesis



""Nature Loves to Wrap Herself Up"": Mythical Forms and Corporeal Forms



Calypso, or ""Imagination with the Flowing Veil""



The Genius of Paganism



The ""Gods of Greece"": Pagan Myths in a Christia