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The Veil of Isis

Paperback • 2008 • English

The Veil of Isis

By Pierre Hadot

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About the book

Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words 'Phusis kruptesthai philei.' How the aphorism, usually translated as 'Nature loves to hide,' has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive i...Show more

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9780674030497

Publisher

The Belknap Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

The Veil of Isis

Format

Paperback

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