{"product_id":"breaking-light-1","title":"Breaking Light","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscloses the ways in which opacity and relation in the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes depart from the predominant understanding of philosophy as clarity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBreaking Light\u003c\/i\u003e D. M. Spitzer discloses the ways in which opacity and relation orient the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eBreaking Light\u003c\/i\u003e departs from a predominant understanding of \u003ci\u003ephilosophy\u003c\/i\u003e as constituted by the principle of clarity—a principle already operative in Plato’s and Aristotle’s interpretations of the shadowy figures from the Greek east identified as the first philosophers, the Milesians. Drawing on \u003ci\u003eopacity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003erelation\u003c\/i\u003e as articulated by Martinican thinker Édouard Glissant and enhanced by the insights of Martin Heidegger and contemporary feminisms in the (trans-)continental tradition(s), \u003ci\u003eBreaking Light\u003c\/i\u003e lets the central terms orienting Milesian thinking—\u003ci\u003eὕδωρ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eἄπειρον\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eἀήρ\u003c\/i\u003e—radiate with the energies of provisionality, uncertainty, and abundance—of opacity. A comparative approach attends to figures like Pherekydes and texts from Egypt and the Near East that are understudied in the continental traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260668682584,"sku":"9798855807370","price":106.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9798855807370.jpg?v=1780452924","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/breaking-light-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}