Early Greek Thought calls into question a longstanding mythology -
operative in both the Analytic and Continental traditions - that
the 'Pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all
traditional forms of knowledge' (Badiou). Each of the variants of
this mythology is dismantled in an attempt to not only retrieve an
'indigenous' interpretation of early Greek thought, but also to
expose the mythological character of our own contemporary
meta-narratives regarding the 'origins' of 'Western', 'Occidental'
philosophy. Using an original hermeneutical approach, James Luchte
excavates the context of emergence of early Greek thought through
an exploration of the mytho-poetic horizons of the archaic world,
in relation to which, as Plato testifies, the Greeks were merely
'children'. Luchte discloses 'philosophy in the tragic age' as a
creative response to a 'contestation' of mytho-poetic narratives
and 'ways of being'. The tragic character of early Greek thought is
unfolded through a cultivation of a conversation between its basic
thinkers, one which would remain incomprehensible, with Bataille,
in the 'absence of myth' and the exile of poetry.
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