Dr James Luchte 
Early Greek Thought [EPUB ebook] 
Before the Dawn

Early Greek Thought calls into question a longstanding mythology – operative in both the Analytic and Continental traditions – that the  »Pre-Socratics had the grandiose audacity to break with all traditional forms of knowledge » (Badiou). Each of the variants of this mythology is dismantled in an attempt to not only retrieve an  »indigenous » interpretation of early Greek thought, but also to expose the
mythological character of our own contemporary meta-narratives regarding the  »origins » of  »Western »,  »Occidental » philosophy. Using an original hermeneutical approach, James Luchte excavates the
context of
emergence of early Greek thought through an exploration of the mytho-poetic horizons of the archaic world, in relation to which, as Plato testifies, the Greeks were merely  »children ». Luchte discloses  »philosophy in the tragic age » as a creative response to a  »contestation » of mytho-poetic narratives and  »ways of being ». The tragic character of early Greek thought is unfolded through a cultivation of a conversation between its basic thinkers, one which would remain incomprehensible, with Bataille, in the  »absence of myth » and the exile of poetry.