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Socrates in August: From Incondensable Complexity to Myth by Michael Jay Katz (Hardback, 1991)

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How is our world incondensably complex? What does this mean for the kinds of understandings with which we must eventually rest satisfied? In 399 B.C., Socrates would have faced this challenge without the language of modern science - a language rife with spacetime continua and four dimensions and genetic codes, all of which hide innumerable elemental assumptions about the structure of human understanding. Instead, Socrates had only his hands and his feet, and trees, houses, and mountains. Most of all, Socrates had the great myths, tales that, having rubbed shoulders with people since time immemorial, still maintain a standing in the crowd. Myths are bald wishes and hopes that are unabashedly fiction and that are human because they resonate in the human soul. They reiterate common human qualities, and they mirror truths that are direct and general and special to us all.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-10
082040781x
ISBN-13
9780820407814
eBay Product ID (ePID)
158371088

Product Key Features

Author
Michael Jay Katz
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook

Additional Product Features

Issn
0739-6392
Series Part/Volume Number
66
First Published
1991
Series Title
American University Studies, Series 5: Philosophy
Author Biography
The Author: Michael Jay Katz, M.D.Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bio-architectonics in the School of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He has written Elements of the Scientific Paper, Templets and the Explanation of Complex Patterns, Pattern Biology and the Complex Architecture of Life, Night Tales of the Shammas, Socrates in October: Dialogues on Incondensable Complexity (Peter Lang), and Socrates in September: The Entanglements of Complexity (Peter Lang).
Date of Publication
01/09/1991
Edition Statement
2nd Revised Edition
Country of Publication
United States

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