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Parmenides of Elea A Verse Translation with Interpretative Essays and Commentary to the Text
Martin J. Henn
ISBN: 0-275-97933-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97933-1
160 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2003
List Price: $75.00 (UK Sterling Price: £51.95)
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Description: Martin J. Henn's Parmenides of Elea offers to the reader a reinvigorating verse translation of the Diels and Kranz B-Fragments of Parmenides cast in rhyming couplet iambic pentameter. Placing Parmenides in his proper historical context by taking seriously the impact of Persian Zoroastrianism on his developing monism, Henn supplies precise interpretation of the most difficult and vexing of Parmenides's fragments, while also providing reliable philosophical analysis of the many seeming contradictions latent in the text.

The interpretive essays form a unique contribution to studies of this work, exploring such issues as the sprawling influences of Persian Zoroastrian dualism, literary parallels and contrasts with Hesiod's Theogony, and the radical antithesis between a finite linear and an infinite closed-loop model of space and time. Overall, Henn's work represents a new model for study of a key element of philosophical literature, making it a highly significant addition to the scholarship on the subject.
Table of Contents:
  • Parmenides and His Predecessors
    Translation of the Diels B-Fragments
    The Question of Being and the Dialectic of Alternative Paths
    Fragment B 3: The Metaphysical Unity of Thinking and Being
    Parmenides' Closed-Loop Concepts of Time and the Illusion of Linear Time-Consciousness
    Necessity, Possibility, and Contingency
    The Teachings of the Goddess
    The Diels & Kranz Greek Test
    Commentary to the Greek
    Select Bibliography
About the Author: MARTIN J. HENN is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas.
LCC Class: 182
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