{"id":2835,"date":"2026-03-11T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T17:22:29","slug":"breaking-light-toward-a-poetics-of-opacity-in-early-greek-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientphilosophysociety.org\/website\/breaking-light-toward-a-poetics-of-opacity-in-early-greek-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In\u00a0Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking<\/em>\u00a0(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 \u00c9douard Glissant. Engaging a wide range of texts from the archaic Mediterranean and beyond–including Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India–alongside modern and contemporary sources, \u00a0the 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.
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In\u00a0Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking\u00a0(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 \u00c9douard Glissant. Engaging a wide range of texts from the archaic Mediterranean and beyond–including Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India–alongside modern and contemporary sources, \u00a0the book opens a way toward dynamic, diverse, and ecologically-oriented perspectives . . . 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