Promoting a new, broadly interdisciplinary horizon for future studies in
early Greek philosophy, Dirk L. Couprie, Robert Hahn, and Gerard Naddaf
establish the cultural context in which Anaximander's thought developed
and in which the origins of Greek philosophy unfolded in its earliest
stages. In order to better understand Anaximander's achievement, the
authors call our attention to the historical, social, political,
technological, cosmological, astronomical, and observational contexts of
his thought. Anaximander in Context brings to the forefront of modern
debates the importance of cultural context, and the indispensability of
images to clarify ancient ideologies.