The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and Significance

The writings of the eminent French scholar and philosopher André Laks have long turned on a double axis: the study of ancient and especially Presocratic thought, and reflection on modern interpretations of the ancients. In The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy, first published in French in 2006 as Introduction à la “philosophie présocratique,” he has bottled the intense distillate of decades of work in both areas.Holding the thinkers we are...