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Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the
intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws
and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty
essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores
the full breadth and reach of Greek thought--investigating what the
Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and
what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions
and possibilities of knowing. Calling attention to the
characteristic reflexivity of Greek thought, the analysis in this
book reminds us of what our own reflections owe to theirs.
In sections devoted to philosophy, politics, the pursuit of
knowledge, major thinkers, and schools of thought, this work shows
us the Greeks looking at themselves, establishing the terms for
understanding life, language, production, and action. The authors
evoke not history, but the stories the Greeks told themselves about
history; not their poetry, but their poetics; not their speeches,
but their rhetoric. Essays that survey political, scientific, and
philosophical ideas, such as those on Utopia and the Critique of
Politics, Observation and Research, and Ethics; others on specific
fields from Astronomy and History to Mathematics and Medicine; new
perspectives on major figures, from Anaxagoras to Zeno of Elea;
studies of core traditions from the Milesians to the various
versions of Platonism: together these offer a sense of the
unquenchable thirst for knowledge that marked Greek
civilization--and that Aristotle considered a natural and universal
trait of humankind. With thirty-two pages of color illustrations,
this work conveys the splendor and vitality of the Greek
intellectual adventure.
In his discussion of political, economic, and ideological
questions, Blumenthal emphasizes the period since 1870, and in his
analysis of expansionism, colonialism, imperialism, and political
strategy, he relates Franco-American diplomacy to the interactions
of Great Britain, Russia, Germany, Japan, and other powers. This
book is essential for an understanding of contemporary relations
between France and America.
Originally published in 1959.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the
latest in digital technology to make available again books from our
distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These
editions are published unaltered from the original, and are
presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both
historical and cultural value.
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