{"product_id":"9781571315441","title":"The Thinking Root","description":"Author: Dan Beachy-Quick\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781571315441\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 17 Aug 2023\u003cbr\u003ePages: 128\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cp\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\u003cp\u003eDrawn 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\u003cp\u003eA 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","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830044676254,"sku":"ADS-9781571315441","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781571315441.jpg?v=1778559001","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781571315441","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}