{"product_id":"breaking-light-d-m-spitzer-9798855807387","title":"Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. M. Spitzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798855807387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"D. M. Spitzer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874710958335,"sku":"9798855807387","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/breaking-light-d-m-spitzer-9798855807387","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}