{"product_id":"9781571315441-the-thinking-root","title":"The Thinking Root","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thinking, as a way of living meaningfully in the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e“We have lost our sense of thinking as the experience that keeps us \u003ci\u003ein \u003c\/i\u003ethe world,” writes Beachy-Quick, and the figures rendered in \u003ci\u003eThe Thinking Root\u003c\/i\u003e—Heraclitus, Anaximander, Empedocles, Parmenides, and others—are among the first examples we have in Western civilization of thinkers who used writing as to record their impressions of a world where intuition and observation, and spirit and nature, have yet to be estranged. In these pages, we find clear-eyed ideas searching for shapes and forms with which to order the world, and to reveal our life in flux.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Drawn from “words that think,” these ancient Greek texts are fresh and alive in the hands of Beachy-Quick, who translates with the empathy of one who knows that “a word is its own form of life.” In aphorisms, axioms, vignettes, and anecdotes, these first theories \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e the world articulate a relationship \u003ci\u003eto\u003c\/i\u003e the world that precedes our story of its making, a world where “the beginning and the end are in common.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e A remarkable collection from one of our most accomplished poets, \u003ci\u003eThe Thinking Root\u003c\/i\u003e renders a primary apprehension of life amidst life, a vision that echoes our gaze upon the stars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58841163366774,"sku":"9781571315441","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27292658.jpg?v=1790654096","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781571315441-the-thinking-root","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}