The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy

Victoria Wohl

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University of California Press
26 August 2025

Literary theory; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

Series: Sather Classical Lectures

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

The Presocratic philosophers, writing in Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, invented new ways of thinking about human life, the natural world, and structures of reality. They also developed novel ways of using language to express their thought. In this book, Victoria Wohl examines these innovations and the productive relation between them in the work of five figures: Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus.

Bringing these thinkers into conversation with modern critical theorists on questions of shared concern, Wohl argues for the poetic sophistication of their work and the inextricable convergence of their aesthetic form and philosophical content. In addition to offering original readings of these fascinating figures and robust strategies for interpreting their fragmentary, rebarbative texts, this book invites readers to communicate across entrenched divisions between literature and philosophy and between antiquity and modernity.

By: Victoria Wohl
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 78
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780520413320
ISBN 10: 0520413326
Series: Sather Classical Lectures
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 26 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victoria Wohl is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto and author of Love Among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens, Law’s Cosmos: Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory, and Euripides and the Politics of Form.