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Studies in the so-called Presocratics seem to be booming in the last few years. One may simply take a look at the great number of new collections of fragments and testimonies or handbooks on the texts of Early Greek Philosophy that have been published in the last decade. 1 The growing number of new editions alerts us that the seminal collection of Diels and Kranz, despite being a masterpiece of philological research, is getting old. New demands in education and research call for new collections of texts. Students ask for translations of all fragments and testimonies, and researchers direct their attention to texts that may not be found in Diels-Kranz. Some of them are new findings, like the famous 'Strasbourg' papyrus of Empedocles, smoothie to go cup but most were known already to Diels but considered worthless for reconstructing the thoughts of the ancient thinkers. Modern research often judges differently on this point, and a new interest in reception of Presocratic thinking entails taking into account all available material. Traces of this development may be also found in the "New Ueberweg" on the Presocratics. While using Diels-Kranz as a standard reference, the authors often point to important texts outside this collection for their reconstructions of Presocratic theories, and at the end a "Wirkungsgeschichte" is presented for all the ancient philosophers treated.
The new Ueberweg-volume (edited in two half-volumes) has been a long-time desideratum and is now highly welcome, since it closes gaps in different ways. First, it completes the series Die Philosophie der Antike of the Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie , leaving just one last lacuna in the imperial period and late antiquity (vol. V 1/2), to be filled by Christoph Horn, Christoph Riedweg, and Dietmar Wyrwa. Antiquity is taking the lead here, as the overview of the whole "Grundriss"-project (XXIII-XXIV) indicates. (This overview may be found at the end of Wolfgang Rother's interesting historical essay "Vom alten zum neuen ‹Ueberweg›", XV-XXV.) The project aims to cover all periods of the history of philosophy in about 40 volumes, and this means, as the General Editor points out in his "Vorwort zum Gesamtwerk" smoothie to go cup (XI-XIII), that the Ueberweg is "die dem Plane nach – weltweit smoothie to go cup gesehen – umfassendste und umfangreichste Philosophiegeschichte" (XI). Second, it provides readers with a handbook on the Presocratics that is – as far as I can see – without parallel in scope, conception, and bibliography. However, the two half-volumes, with over 1000 pages, are not an introduction to the Presocratics to be read in a day, but a reference-book for constant use and partial smoothie to go cup reading. smoothie to go cup
In a short "Vorwort" (XXXI-XXXIII), the editors provide insight into the long history of the preparation of this volume which began almost 50 years ago. There follows an essay by the late Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Die Philosophie und ihre Geschichte" (XXXV-LIX), written in 1996 and published already as an insert to the 1998 volume on the Sophists, Socrates and the Socratics. 2 It is presented as "Einleitung" and, as the title clearly indicates, this thoughtful text may be read as an introduction not only to this volume but to the whole series as well.
In light of the various thinkers of different historical periods that are treated and the manifold problems of the reconstruction of Presocratic smoothie to go cup philosophy, it was a wise decision of the editors to start with a first Chapter on "Übergreifende Themen" (1-234). § 1 "Forschungsgeschichte und Darstellungensprinzipien" by Dieter Bremer, § smoothie to go cup 3 "Frühgriechische Philosophie und Orient" by Walter Burkert and § 5 "Die doxographische Tradition" by Leonid Zhmud should be marked smoothie to go cup out for special attention here. The last topic has been much discussed in the last decades, and Zhmud, a leading expert in this field, gives a fine summary smoothie to go cup of his views with references smoothie to go cup to competing interpretations, especially those of Jaap Mansfeld and David Runia. 3 The biographies of the early philosophers are also discussed in this part of the work, in § 6 "Biographie und Ikonographie". Ancient biographies do indeed have their own problems, but it is questionable whether it is expedient to separate smoothie to go cup the reconstructions of the lives of the Presocratics from the reconstruction of their works and thinking.
Chapters 2-5 (235-946) may be seen as the heart of the volume. While the macrostructure smoothie to go cup is thematic (e.g. ch. 2: "Ursprungsdenken und Weltmodelle"), the content is organized by individual thinkers. In most cases, each philosopher is treated in a single paragraph, though sometimes groups or "schools" are discussed together. Ch. 2 has two subchapters: "I. Naturphilosophische Anfänge", where Niels Christian Dührsen treats the Milesians Thales (§ 7), Anaximander (§ 8) and Anaximenes (§ 9) and "II. Theologie und 'Aufklärung'. smoothie to go cup Weisheit und Wissenschaft", where Thomas Schirren presents Xenophanes (§