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Author Manchester, Peter, 1942-2015.

Title The syntax of time : the phenomenology of time in Greek physics and speculative logic from Iamblichus to Anaximander / by Peter Manchester.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 177 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 2
Ancient Mediterranean and medieval texts and contexts.
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-177) and index.
Contents Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter One. Two-Dimensional Time in Husserl and Iamblichus; Chapter Two. Time and the Soul in Plotinus; Chapter Three. Everywhere Now: Physical Time in Aristotle; Chapter Four. Parmenides: Time as the Now; Chapter Five. Heraclitus and the Need for Time; Appendix 1 Physical Lectures on Time by Aristotle: A Minimal Translation; Appendix 2 Fragment 8 of the Poem of Parmenides: Text and Translation; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Bridging from Husserl to Iamblichus, this book contributes phenomenological readings of Plotinus, Aristotle, Parmenides, and Heraclitus, in which prevalent misconceptions about the very identity of time in the phenomena of motion are corrected, and time's role in Greek philosophy recovered.
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Subject Time.
Time.
Time -- History.
History.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Indexed Term 1. TIME. 2. TIME--HIST. 3. PHILOSOPHY, ANCIENT.
Classics
Philosophical
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Manchester, Peter, 1942- Syntax of time. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005 (DLC) 2005050179
ISBN 9789047408390 (electronic book)
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9004147128 (alkaline paper)
1280868694
9781280868696
9004147128 (alkaline paper)