Anaximander and the Architects : The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy

by Hahn, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780791447932
• ISBN10: 0791447936
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Author Biography

Robert Hahn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Preface	xvii
Introduction	1	(14)
Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Philosophy	15	(32)
The Problem and the Three Tiers of Explanation	15	(6)
The Conventional View and Its Discontents	21	(18)
The New Contributing Thesis: Technology as Politics	39	(8)
The Ionian Philosophers and Architects	47	(50)
Fixing Anaximander's Date: The First Philosophical Book in Prose	47	(3)
Archaic Prose Writing: Pherecydes' Cosmogony and Legal Inscriptions	50	(5)
Prose in Archaic Architectural Treatises and the Community of Thales and Anaximander, Theodorus and Rhoikos, Chersiphron and Metagenes	55	(11)
The New Connection: The Contribution of the Egyptian Architects to the Ionian Greek Architects of the Archaic Period	66	(3)
An Overview of Monumental Temple Projects in Archaic Ionia	69	(17)
The Meaning of the Temple: Design Choices	86	(11)
The Techniques of the Ancient Architects	97	(66)
The Evidence for Imagining in Plan or Aerial View	97	(23)
The Evidence for Models	120	(17)
The Theory of Proportions	137	(12)
The Techniques of Anathyrosis and Empolion	149	(14)
Anaximander's Techniques	163	(56)
Architect, Philosopher, and the New Vision Supplied by the Application of Geometrical Techniques	163	(6)
Homer's World Picture	169	(3)
Hesiod's World Picture	172	(5)
Anaximander's World Picture: The Plan or Aerial View	177	(23)
Anaximander's World Picture: Three-dimensional Views---The Side, Elevation, Oblique, and Axonometric Views	200	(19)
Technology as Politics: The Origins of Greek Philosophy in Its Sociopolitical Context	219	(22)
Re-Framing the New Narrative Account	219	(4)
The Aristocratic Patrons of Archaic Temples	223	(3)
Technology as Politics: The ``Argument'' for the Appropriation of Civic Authority	226	(15)
Notes	241	(54)
Bibliography	295	(20)
Index	315