by Jean-Pierre Vernant · Presses Universitaires de France · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782130545651
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«Les origines de la pensée grecque» is the philosophical essay by Jean-Pierre Vernant, published by PUF in paperback (133 pages, in French).
In this essay, Jean-Pierre Vernant studies the conditions that allowed the emergence of rational knowledge in 6th-century BC Greece, as opposed to mythical thought. The essay traces the evolution from Mycenaean kingship to the democratic city and locates in Miletus the rise of a secular and geometric explanation of the cosmos, linked to the new social organization of the polis.
Essay originally published in 1962, reissued in the Quadriga, Grands textes collection; this is the 11th edition.
For students or readers of philosophy and ancient history interested in a classic synthesis on the origin of rational thought.
Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French resistant, historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a structuralist approach to Greek myth, tragedy, and society which would itself be influential among classical scholars. He was an honorary professor at the Collège de France.
