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The veil of Isis : an essay on the history of the idea of nature / Pierre Hadot ; translated by Michael Chase.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.Description: xii, 399 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0674023161
Uniform titles:
  • Voile d'Isis. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 113.09 22
LOC classification:
  • BD581 .H2813 2006
Contents:
Prologue at Ephesus : an enigmatic saying -- 1. Heraclitus' aphorism : "what is born tends to disappear" -- 2. From Phusis to nature -- 3. Secrets of the gods and secrets of nature -- 4. Heraclitus' aphorism and allegorical exegesis -- 5. "Nature loves to wrap herself up" : mythical forms and corporeal forms -- 6. Calypso, or "imagination with the flowing veil" -- 7. The genius of paganism -- 8. The "gods of Greece" : pagan myths in a Christian world -- 9. Prometheus and Orpheus -- 10. Mechanics and magic from antiquity to the Renaissance -- 11. Experimental science and the mechanization of nature -- 12. Criticism of the Promethean attitude -- 13. Physics as a conjectural science -- 14. Truth as the daughter of time -- 15. The study of nature as a spiritual exercise -- 16. Nature's behavior : thrifty, joyful, or spendthrift? -- 17. The poetic model -- 18. Aesthetic perception and the genesis of forms -- 19. Artemis and Isis -- 20. Isis has no veils -- 21. The sacred shudder -- 22. Nature as sphinx -- 23. From the secret of nature to the mystery of being.
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Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-388) and index.

Prologue at Ephesus : an enigmatic saying -- 1. Heraclitus' aphorism : "what is born tends to disappear" -- 2. From Phusis to nature -- 3. Secrets of the gods and secrets of nature -- 4. Heraclitus' aphorism and allegorical exegesis -- 5. "Nature loves to wrap herself up" : mythical forms and corporeal forms -- 6. Calypso, or "imagination with the flowing veil" -- 7. The genius of paganism -- 8. The "gods of Greece" : pagan myths in a Christian world -- 9. Prometheus and Orpheus -- 10. Mechanics and magic from antiquity to the Renaissance -- 11. Experimental science and the mechanization of nature -- 12. Criticism of the Promethean attitude -- 13. Physics as a conjectural science -- 14. Truth as the daughter of time -- 15. The study of nature as a spiritual exercise -- 16. Nature's behavior : thrifty, joyful, or spendthrift? -- 17. The poetic model -- 18. Aesthetic perception and the genesis of forms -- 19. Artemis and Isis -- 20. Isis has no veils -- 21. The sacred shudder -- 22. Nature as sphinx -- 23. From the secret of nature to the mystery of being.

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