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Filosofins historia II: temastudium, 7.5 högskolepoÀng

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Beslutsdatum: 2026-04-17
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Filosofins historia II: temastudium: Försokratikerna och frÄgan om filosofins början

(LĂ€rare: Charlotta Weigelt)

Att köpa eller lÄna:

Graham, Daniel W., The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy. The Complete Fragments and Selected Testimonies of the Major Presocratics. Part I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), totalt ca 685 s. (dubbelsprÄkig utgÄva).

(Ett alternativ Ă€r AndrĂ© Laks & Glenn Most, Early Greek Philosophy, vol. II‑VII (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016). PĂ„ svenska finns ett urval av fragmenten översatta av Gert Cervin, Försokratiker (Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 1954). Herakleitos fragment Ă€r översatta av Hans Ruin & HĂ„kan Rehnberg (Stockholm: Faethon, 2023), och Parmenides lĂ€rodikt, ”Om naturen”, Ă€r översatt av Jim Jakobsson i Kris 49‑50 (1996): 45‑55. Alla dessa utgĂ„vor Ă€r dubbelsprĂ„kiga med undantag för Försokratiker.)

Görs tillgÀngligt pÄ studiewebben/Canvas:

Aristoteles, ”Bok A”, Metafysiken, övers. Charlotta Weigelt (manuskript), 24 s.

Bjarkö, Fredrik, kap. 3: “Barbarians, Orientals and Greeks: The Question of the Origin of Philosophy”, The Odyssey of the Human Spirit. Historiography of Philosophy in the Post‑Kantian Age (Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2025), s. 119‑163.

Bredlow, Luis AndrĂ©s, ”Parmenides and the Grammar of Being”, Classical Philology 106/4 (2011): 283‑298.

Burkert, Walter, ”Prehistory of Presocratic Philosophy in an Orientalizing Context”, i Patricia Curd & Daniel Graham, The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), s. 55‑87.

Cantor, Lea (2022), ”Thales ‑ the ‘first philosopher’? A troubled chapter in the historiography of philosophy”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 30:5 (2022): 727‑750.

Curd, Patricia, ”Anaxagoras and the Theory of Everything”, i Curd & Graham (2008), s. 230‑249.

FĂłti, Veronique M., ”Empedocles and Tragic Thought: Heidegger, Hölderlin, Nietzsche”, i David C. Jacobs (red.), The Presocratics after Heidegger (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999), s. 277‑294.

Gadamer, Hans‑Georg, ”Heraclitus Studies”, i Jacobs (1999), s. 203‑247.

Heidegger, Martin, ”The Last, Undelivered Lecture (XII) from Summer Semester 1952”, övers. Will McNeill, i Jacobs (1999), s. 171‑184.

Hollywood, Amy, ”On the Materiality of Air: on Kauffman’s Bodyfictions”, New Literary History 27/3 (1996): 503‑525.

Jasnow, R. & K. T. Zauzich (red. &. övers.). The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth: A Demotic

Discourse on Knowledge and Pendant to the Classical Hermetica (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 2005). [utdrag]

Kahn, Charles H, kap. 3: ”Anaximander’s Fragment: the Universe Governed by Law”, Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology (NY: Colombia University Press, 1960), s. 166‑196.

Laks, AndrĂ©, ”Speculating about Diogenes of Apollonia”, i Curd & Graham (2008), s. 353‑364.

McEvilley, Thomas, kap. 1: “Diffusion Channels in the Pre‑Alexandrian Period”, kap. 2: “The Problem of the One and the Many”, The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies on Greek and Indian Philosophies (New York: Allworth, 2002), s. 1‑22, 23‑65.

MogyorĂłdi, Emese, ”Xenophanes as a Philosopher: Theology and Theodicy”, i AndrĂ© Laks & Claire Louguet (red.), Qu’est‑ce que la Philosophie PrĂ©socratique? What is Presocratic Philosophy? (Villeneuve d’Ascq: Septentrion, 2002), s. 253‑286.

O’Connell, Erin, kap. 3: “The Illogic of Logocentrism”, Heraclitus and Derrida: Presocratic Deconstruction (NY: Lang, 2005), s. 43‑64.

Olivelli, Patrick (red. & övers.), kap. 2: “Chandogya Upanisad”, The Early Upanisads: Annotated Text and Translation (Oxford: OUP, 1998), s. 166‑215, 245‑257 (dubbelsprĂ„kig utgĂ„va).

Pinchard, Alexis, ”Does the Concept of Theƍria Fit the Beginning of Indian Thought?”, i Richard Seaford (red.), Universe and Inner Self in Early Indian and Early Greek Thought (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016), s. 118‑133.

Primavesi, Oliver, ”Empedocles: Physical and Mythical Divinity”, i Curd & Graham (2008), s. 250‑282.

Robbiano, Chiara, ”Self or Being Without Boundaries: on ƚankara and Parmenides”, i Seaford (2016), s. 134‑148.

Rutherford, Ian (red.), “Introduction”, Greco‑Egyptian Interactions: Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC‑300 AD (Oxford: OUP, 2016), s. 1‑10.

Seaford, Richard, kap. 8: “The Formation of Monism”, The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), s. 143‑166.

Sedley, David, ”Atomism’s Eleatic Roots”, i Curd & Graham (2008), s. 305‑325.

Simpson, William Kelly (red. & övers.), “The Hymn to the Aten”, The Literature of Ancient Egypt. An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies and Poetry (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003, 3:e utg.), s. 278‑283.

Vamvacas, Constantine J., “Thales of Miletus”, “Anaximenes of Miletus”, “Pythagoras of Samos”, The Founders of Western Thought ‑ The Presocratics. A Diachronic Parallelism between Presocratic Thought and Philosophy and the Natural Sciences (Dordrecht: Springer, 2009), s. 29‑33, 45‑51, 53‑84.

Vernant, Jean‑Pierre, “The origins of philosophy”, Myth and Thought Among the Greeks, övers. Janet Lloyd & Jeff Fort (NY: Zone Books, 2006), s. 399‑408.

Wright, M. R., ”Presocratic Cosmologies”, i Curd & Graham (2008), s. 413‑433.