Prologue : before the dawn
Meta-philosophy of early Greek thought
The motif of the dawn, or, On gossip
The dance of being : contexts of emergence and mytho-poetic horizons
"War is the mother of all things" : Nietzsche and the birth of philosophy
Aletheia and being : Heidegger contra Nietzsche
Philosophy as tragedy (and comedy) : a note on post-structuralism
The question of the first : Thales and Anaximander
Recoiling from the abyss : Anaximenes and Xenophanes
All is flux : Heraclitus
Eternal return of the soul : Pythagoras
Tragic differing : Parmenides
Love, strife, and mind : Empedocles and Anaxagoras
The divine beauty of chaos : Democritus
Plato in the shadow of the sublime
Epilogue. poetics, and the matheme : on Badiou.
Early Greek thought : before the dawn by James Luchte. ISBN 9781441146618. Published by Continuum in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.