Description
| Product ID: | 9780674030497 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Veil of Isis |
| Subtitle: | An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature |
| Authors: | Author: Pierre Hadot, Michael Chase |
| Page Count: | 432 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words “Phusis kruptesthai philei.” How the aphorism, usually translated as “Nature loves to hide,” has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. |
| Imprint Name: | The Belknap Press |
| Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-09-01 |
