The Figure of Nature: On Greek Origins

One of America's preeminent philosophers "has produced a book with fascinating new insights into the ancient conception of nature" (Choice).

Broaching an understanding of nature in Platonic thought, John Sallis goes beyond modern conceptions and provides a strategy to have recourse to the profound sense of nature operative in ancient Greek philosophy. In a rigorous and textually based account, Sallis traces the complex development of the Greek concept of nature. Beginning with the mythical ...