Generation of Animals & History of Animals I, Parts of Animals I

C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His recent books include Aristotle: A Quick Immersion (2019), Action, Contemplation, and Happiness: An Essay on Aristotle (2012), Blindness and Reorientation: Problems with Plato’s Republic (2012), and Aristotle on Practical Wisdom: Nicomachean Ethics Book VI (2013). In addition to his Aristotle editions he has translated Plato's Cratylus (1997), Euthyphro, Apology, Crito (2002), Republic (2004), and Meno (2006).

"C.D.C. Reeve's annotated translation of Aristotle's Generation of Animals provides novices and experts alike a much-needed modern and readable, yet accurate and technically rigorous, entry to this difficult text. By printing it together with translations of the methodologically prior works, History of Animals I and Parts of Animals I, readers now have access to what are arguably Aristotle's philosophically richest biological texts.The Introduction helpfully situates the project of Aristotle's biology into its metaphysical and (natural) scientific context, but it also does much more. It offers a panoramic, illuminating, and characteristically provocative interpretative picture of Aristotle's philosophical endeavors as a whole—one that demands to be assessed in its entirety, and that is supported by a wealth of references to, and quotations from, mostly Aristotle himself. The book provides an invaluable resource for anyone trying to understand Aristotle's fascination with living nature”—Mariska Leunissen, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill