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  | | How Philosophers Saved Myths Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology by Luc Brisson, Catherine Tihanyi Paperback, 221 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07537-2, ISBN: 0-226-07537-0 "This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exeg ..." |
 | | Plato's Universe(Updated) by Gregory Vlastos, Luc Brisson Paperback, 140 Pages, Published 2006 by Parmenides Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-930972-13-1, ISBN: 1-930972-13-X "A distinguished Platonic scholar discusses the impact of the Greek discovery of the "cosmos" on man's perception of his place in the universe, describes the problems this posed, and interprets Plato's response to this discovery. Starting with the Presocratics, Vlastos describes the intellectual revolution that began with the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes in the sixth century B.C. and culminated a century later in th ..." |
 | | Inventing the Universe Plato's Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge (SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy) by Luc Brisson, F. Walter Meyerstein Paperback, 193 Pages, Published 1995 by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-2692-0, ISBN: 0-7914-2692-0 "A parallel investigation of both Plato's Timaeusand the contemporary standard Big Bang model of the universe shows that any possible scientific knowledge of the universe is ultimately grounded in irreducible and undemonstrable propositions. These are inventions of the human mind. The scientific knowledge of the universe is entirely composed in a series of axioms and rules of inference underlying a formalized system. There is no logical ..." |
 | | Plato the Myth Maker(Updated) by Luc Brisson, Gerard Naddaf Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07519-8, ISBN: 0-226-07519-2 "The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted description of muthos in light of the latter's Atlantis stor ..." |
 | | How Philosophers Saved Myths(1st Edition) Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology by Luc Brisson, Catherine Tihanyi Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2004 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07535-8, ISBN: 0-226-07535-4 "This study explains how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. Luc Brisson argues that philosophy was ironically responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy was initially critical of myth because it could not be declared true or false and because it was inferior to argumentation, mythology was progressively reincorporated into philosophy through allegorical exeg ..." |
 | | Plato the Myth Maker(1st Edition) by Luc Brisson, Gerard Naddaf Hardcover, 244 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07518-1, ISBN: 0-226-07518-4 "We think of a myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term "muthos" in that sense. But Plato also used "muthos" to describe the practice of making and telling myths, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of "Plato the Myth Maker," Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of "muthos" in light of the latter's famous Atlantis ..." |
 | | Greek Thought(1st Edition) A Guide to Classical Knowledge (Harvard University Press Reference Library) by Jacques Brunschwig, Catherine Porter, Julia Annas, Serge Bardet, Annie Bélis, Enrico Berti, Henry Blumenthal, Richard Bodéüs, Luc Brisson, Monique Canto-Sperber, Paul Cartledge, Barbara Cassin, Maurice Caveing, François De Gandt, Armelle Debru, John Dillon, Michael Frede, D. J. Furley, François Hartog, Carl Huffman, Edward Hussey, Christian Jacob, Jacques Joanna, José Kany-Turpin, Wilbur Knorr, André Laks, Alain Le Boulluec, Carlos Lévy, Mario Mignucci, Donald Morrison, Claude Mossé, Oswyn Murray, Carlo Natali, John David North, Martin Ostwald, Pierre Pellegrin, Gilbert Romeyer Dherbey, Malcolm Schofield, R. W. Sharples, Pierre Somville, G. J. Toomer, Robert Wardy, Anthony A. Long, Françoise Frazier Hardcover, 1,056 Pages, Published 2000 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00261-6, ISBN: 0-674-00261-X " 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 unde ..." |
 | | Sexual Ambivalence(1st Edition) Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by Luc Brisson, Lady Janet Lloyd Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22391-2, ISBN: 0-520-22391-8 "This fascinating book collects and translates most of the extant written Graeco-Roman material on human beings, divinities, animals, and other creatures who were said to have been both female and male. Luc Brisson provides a commentary that situates this rich source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections--from mythological, philosophical, historical, and anecdotal sources--describe cases of either sim ..." |
 | | Plato's universe by Gregory Vlastos, Luc Brisson Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 1975 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-95388-5, ISBN: 0-295-95388-8 "Book by Vlastos Gregory" |
 | | Platonic Inquiries Selected Papers from the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies by John F. Finamore, Claudia D'amico, Natalia Strok, Jose C. Baracat, Robert M. Berchman, Dmitry Biriukov, Luc Brisson, Mathilde Cambron-Goulet, Patricia Andrea Ciner Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2017 by Prometheus Trust ISBN-13: 978-1-898910-85-5, ISBN: 1-898910-85-5 "Edited by Claudia D'Amico, John F Finamore and Natalia Strok This anthology of 24 essays by scholars from around the world is published in association with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studes: it contains many of the papers presented in their 2015 annual conference. Contents: The Platonic origins of the Axiochus and the contribution of its author to the Socratic theme - Menahem Luz Rhea - Hecate. The Triple Expansion of Lif ..." |
 | | How Philosophers Saved Myths Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology by Luc Brisson Digital, 221 Pages, Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07538-9, ISBN: 0-226-07538-9 |
 | | How Philosophers Saved Myths Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology by Luc Brisson Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1-281-95923-2, ISBN: 1-281-95923-5 |
 | | Sexual Ambivalence Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Græco-Roman Antiquity by Luc Brisson, Janet Lloyd Hardcover, 209 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23148-1, ISBN: 0-520-23148-1 "This fascinating book collects and translates most of the extant written Graeco-Roman material on human beings, divinities, animals, and other creatures who were said to have been both female and male. Luc Brisson provides a commentary that situates this rich source material within its historical and intellectual contexts. These selections--from mythological, philosophical, historical, and anecdotal sources--describe cases of either sim ..." |
 | | Formation Personnelle Et Sociale Guide D'Enseignement by Guy Beaulac, Luc Brisson 327 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-549588-8, ISBN: 0-07-549588-0 |
 | | Plato The Myth Maker by Luc Brisson Published 1998 by The University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-07318-7, ISBN: 0-226-07318-1 |
 | | Inventing the Universe Plato's Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge by Luc Brisson, F. Walter Meyerstein 206 Pages, Published 1995 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-9756-2, ISBN: 0-7914-9756-9 "These are inventions of the human mind. The scientific knowledge of the universe is entirely composed in a series of axioms and rules of inference underlying a formalized system." |
 | | Orphée et l’Orphisme dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine(1st Edition) (Variorum Collected Studies Series) by Luc Brisson Hardcover, 313 Pages, Published 1995 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-86078-453-1, ISBN: 0-86078-453-3 "The figure of Orpheus has long exercised a potent influence on religious thought. Yet what we know directly about Orphism comes from a scatter of isolated and often very short fragments quoted in the works of Platonists of the Roman period, notably Proclus, Damascius and Olympiodorus. The author’s concern here is to establish the context in which these passages were cited, and to trace the development of the written tradition, from th ..." |
 | | Inventing the Universe Plato's Timaeus, the Big Bang, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge (Suny Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy) by Luc Brisson, F. Walter Meyerstein Hardcover, 193 Pages, Published 1995 by State Univ Of New York Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-2691-3, ISBN: 0-7914-2691-2 "The "irrational gap" between perception and explanation can be appraised historically and identified in three stages: Plato's Timaeus furnishes the first example of a scientific theory dealing with a realm of ideality that cannot be derived from immediate sensible perception; the Big Bang model is constituted on the basis of the purely geometrical notion of symmetry; and in the more recent Algorithmic Theory of Information, the analysis ..." |
 | | Formation personnelle et sociale, 4e secondaire Cahier d'exercices by Guy Beaulac, Luc Brisson 152 Pages, Published 1988 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-549587-1, ISBN: 0-07-549587-2 |
 | | Plato's Universe(Updated) by Gregory Vlastos, Luc Brisson, Spencer Moseley Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1982 by University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-95390-8, ISBN: 0-295-95390-X |
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