Index

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Preface: (Meta)Physics for Poets xiii
4. Introduction: The Poetry of Being 1
5. 1. Parmenides’s Logos of Being
6. METAPHOR AND METAPHYSICS 21
7. THE HODOS POLUPHĒMOS 25
8. BOUNDS OF BONDS 37
9. LIKE A WELL-ROUNDED SPHERE 48
10. 2. Time, the Cosmos, and the Soul in Heraclitus
11. HERACLITUS’S PSYCHOCOSMOLOGY 56
12. AEI AND AIŌN 61
13. APHORISM LULLABY 70
14. STUTTER, SYNCOPATION 80
15. 3. Empedocles’s Autobiography
16. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DAIMŌN 89
17. AUTOS 92
18. BIOS 101
19. GRAPHĒ 112
20. 4. Paratactic Politics: Anaxagoras and the Things
21. POLITICAL COSMOLOGY 124
22. A COMMUNITY OF THINGS 130
23. NOUS AUTOKRATES 137
24. VISION OF THE OBSCURE 148
25. 5. Democritus and the Poetics of (N)othing
26. ONTOLOGY’S SECRET STOWAWAY 158
27. ATOMS, VOID, AND THE INDIFFERENT PHYSICS OF THE DEN 163
28. KNOW THYSELF AND NOTHING IN EXCESS 172
29. SIGNIFYING NOTHING 181
30. Conclusion: The Prose of the World 191
31. Bibliography 199
32. Index 225