In Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking (May 2026 on SUNY Press’s series in Ancient Philosophy), D. M. Spitzer develops interpretive channels and linkages joining the Milesian thinkers Thales, Anaximandros, Anaximenes and the 20th century Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant. Engaging a wide range of texts from the archaic Mediterranean and beyond–including Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India–alongside modern and contemporary sources,  the book opens a way toward dynamic, diverse, and ecologically-oriented perspectives on the first stirrings of philosophy among the Greeks and what they might suggest for the 21st century.
https://sunypress.edu/Books/B/Breaking-Light