{"product_id":"inquiring-into-being-colin-c-smith-9798855801347","title":"Inquiring Into Being: Essays on Parmenides","description":"\u003ci\u003eInquiring into Being\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of Parmenides, the early Greek pre-Socratic philosopher often credited as the first metaphysician and whose sole written work was a philosophical poem. In his poem, Parmenides has a narrating goddess character indicate the sense of being that must be and cannot be as a corrective to the errors mortals make when accounting for the ultimate nature of reality while showing a keen scientific understanding of natural phenomena. \u003ci\u003eInquiring into Being\u003c\/i\u003e brings together and further develops recent work on Parmenides and the surviving fragments of his text through twelve chapters by scholars from the United States and United Kingdom working in analytic and continental philosophy, classics, political theory, literary theory, and the history of science. It serves as a guide through many of the interpretive controversies in Parmenides's poem while offering new insights into Parmenides's role as poet, scientist, natural philosopher, and investigator into the nature of being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Colin C. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798855801347\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 03\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Colin C. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46451219759359,"sku":"9798855801347","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1cc0e9a5-02bb-410e-b115-320b49aeb5ef.jpg?v=1735876819","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/inquiring-into-being-colin-c-smith-9798855801347","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}