The veil of Isis :
Hadot, Pierre.
The veil of Isis : an essay on the history of the idea of nature / Pierre Hadot ; translated by Michael Chase. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. - xii, 399 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-388) and index.
Prologue at Ephesus : an enigmatic saying -- Heraclitus' aphorism : "what is born tends to disappear" -- From Phusis to nature -- Secrets of the gods and secrets of nature -- 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 Christian world -- Prometheus and Orpheus -- Mechanics and magic from antiquity to the Renaissance -- Experimental science and the mechanization of nature -- Criticism of the Promethean attitude -- Physics as a conjectural science -- Truth as the daughter of time -- The study of nature as a spiritual exercise -- Nature's behavior : thrifty, joyful, or spendthrift? -- The poetic model -- Aesthetic perception and the genesis of forms -- Artemis and Isis -- Isis has no veils -- The sacred shudder -- Nature as sphinx -- From the secret of nature to the mystery of being. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.
0674023161
9780674023161
2006044554
GBA672063 bnb
013536971 Uk
Philosophy of nature.
BD581 / .H2813 2006
113.09
The veil of Isis : an essay on the history of the idea of nature / Pierre Hadot ; translated by Michael Chase. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. - xii, 399 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-388) and index.
Prologue at Ephesus : an enigmatic saying -- Heraclitus' aphorism : "what is born tends to disappear" -- From Phusis to nature -- Secrets of the gods and secrets of nature -- 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 Christian world -- Prometheus and Orpheus -- Mechanics and magic from antiquity to the Renaissance -- Experimental science and the mechanization of nature -- Criticism of the Promethean attitude -- Physics as a conjectural science -- Truth as the daughter of time -- The study of nature as a spiritual exercise -- Nature's behavior : thrifty, joyful, or spendthrift? -- The poetic model -- Aesthetic perception and the genesis of forms -- Artemis and Isis -- Isis has no veils -- The sacred shudder -- Nature as sphinx -- From the secret of nature to the mystery of being. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.
0674023161
9780674023161
2006044554
GBA672063 bnb
013536971 Uk
Philosophy of nature.
BD581 / .H2813 2006
113.09