TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cornelli,Gabriele
TI  - In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category 
T2  - Studia Praesocratica ,
SN  - 9783110306279
AV  - B243 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Philosophie der Antike
KW  - Pythagoras
KW  - Pythagoreismus
KW  - Vorsokratiker
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Historiography of Ancient Thought
KW  - History of Ancient Philosophy
KW  - Presocratics
KW  - Pythagoreanism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Note --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1 History of criticism: from Zeller to Kingsley --; 2 Pythagoreanism as a historiographical category --; 3 Immortality of the soul and metempsýchōsis --; 4 Numbers --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index of Topics --; Index of Passages --; Index of Names; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations, to the point that Kahn (1974) suggested that, instead of another thesis on Pythagoreanism, it would be preferable to assess traditions with the aim of producing a good historiographical presentation. This almost fourty-year-old observation by Kahn, directs the author of this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological brand of work, that is, one neither exclusively devoted to the exegesis of sources such as Philolaus, Archytas or even of one of the Hellenistic Lives nor even to the theoretical approach of one of the themes that received specific contributions from Pythagoreanism, such as mathematics, cosmology, politics or theories of the soul. Instead, this monograph sets out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism’s image, facing one of the central problems that characterizes Pythagoreanism more than other ancient philosophical movements: the drastically shifting terrain of the criticism of the sources. The goal of this historiographical approach is to embrace Pythagoreanism in its entirety, through - and not in spite of - its complex articulation across more than a millennium
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110306507
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ER  -