[PDF.40nl] The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature

The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature

[PDF.xb08] The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature

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 | #861492 in Books |  Belknap Press |  2008-09-15 |  2008-08-25 | Original language:French | PDF # 1 |  8.10 x1.20 x5.40l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 432 pages

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||13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| The Trembling of the Veil|By toronto|This is about 2/3 of a great book, which is still very good. Hadot is a very well known French philosopher of a not post-modern kind, and writes very clearly (and the translation by Michael Chase is beautiful). The book is a survey of the theme of penetrating the secrets of nature, and it is surprising how much mileage the author gets ou| |The Veil of Isis is profoundly original in design. Pierre Hadot is both an eminent historian of philosophy and a philosopher himself. Both sides of his interest are evident in this outstanding study, in which the argument develops historically and analy

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 Heidegge...

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