Schrempp Gregory A (10 results)

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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Magical Arrows: The Maori, the Greeks, and the Folklore of the Universe. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 217pp., xviii. '1' in number line. Foreword by Marshall Sahlins. Notes, pp.195-205; Works Cited, pp. 207-211 ; Index, pp. 213-217. Glossy purple wrappers with front cover magenta title lettering and design elements, author name and subtitle lettering in white; single, short pencil-ink line on p. 54; two similar lines on p. 57, else clean text; miniscule tips of wear at lower right spine corner and top right front cover corner; miniscule curls at top corners: describes much worse than it is. Tight binding; no previous owner names. Text essentially clean. Flatsigned by author on title page below his printed name. Flatsigned by Author.…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. pp. 238.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A fascinating and sophisticated exploration of cosmology, Magical Arrows connects the Western philosophical tradition with the cosmological traditions of non-Western societies, particularly those of Polynesia. Using the mythology and philosophy of the Maori of New Zealand as a counterpoint to Western thought, Schrempp finds a philosophical common denominator in the thought of the pre-Socratic philosopher, Zeno of Elea. Schrempp suggests that the paradoxes of Zeno, together with the philosophical speculations that they have historically inspired, contain sophisticated insights which are nevertheless general enough to form the foundations of a comparative cosmology. Schrempp suggests that perhaps the most noteworthy Zenoian insight is that paradox is intrinsic to cosmological speculation. But he points out that there are many other characteristics of Zeno's approach, including the strategy of juxtaposing concrete images to mathematical forms of representation, that reappear persistently in Western intellectual history. Schrempp proceeds through a series of juxtapositions-between Zeno, Kant, Lovejoy, and Lévi-Strauss, and between Western cosmologists and those from other cultures-to highlight subtle similarities and differences among intellectual traditions and to examine the conceptual apparatus of Western social science. Schrempp concludes that a meaningful comparative cosmology is possible and that the tradition of Zeno provides a propitious starting point for such a perspective.…

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