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ISBN-10: 0142437654
ISBN-13: 9780142437650
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 10/28/2003
Dimensions: 7.94" L, 5.04" W, 0.32" H

Fragments

Translator: Brooks Haxton
Foreword by: James Hillman

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Price: $15.00

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Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world

In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein–Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world’s first coherent philosophical treatise and touchstone for Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, has long been lost to history–but its surviving fragments have for thousands of years tantalized our greatest thinkers, from Montaigne to Nietzsche, Heidegger to Jung. Now, acclaimed poet Brooks Haxton presents a powerful free-verse translation of all 130 surviving fragments of the teachings of Heraclitus, with the ancient Greek originals beautifully reproduced en face.

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"Heraclitus's fragments come to us like sparks off an anvil. . . . a luminous translation." (Nicholas Christopher)

"Breathtaking." (Richard Howard)

"A pellucid and informed translation." (Rita Dove, The Washington Post)

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Details

ISBN-10: 0142437654
ISBN-13: 9780142437650
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 10/28/2003
Dimensions: 7.94" L, 5.04" W, 0.32" H
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