Presocratic Reflexivity: The Construction of Philosophical Discourse c. 600-450 B.C.

Barry Sandywell is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York.

• INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURE 1 PRESOCRATIC THOUGHT AND THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN EUROPEAN REFLECTION 2 THALES AND THE ORIGINS OF IONIAN COSMOLOGY 753 ANAXIMANDER’S COSMOS 4 ANAXIMENES’ PNEUMATOLOGY 5 THE PYTHAGOREAN FORM OF LIFE 6 HERACLITUS, LOGOLOGIST: THE REFLEXIVE COSMOS OF HERACLITUS 7 ELEATIC ONTOLOGY FROM XENOPHANES TO PARMENIDES AND BEYOND 8 PLURALISTS: EMPEDOCLES, ANAXAGORAS,AND THE BEGINNINGS OF ATOMISM