Thomas McEvilley
The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
Art and Discontent: Theory at the Millennium
Sculpture in the Age of Doubt
Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism
Art and Otherness: Crisis in Cultural Identity
Art, Love, Friendship: Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Together & Apart
Charles A.A. Dellschau
Yves the Provocateur: Yves Klein and Twentieth-Century Art
The Exile's Return: Toward a Redefinition of Painting for the Post-Modern Era
Pat Steir
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July 13, 1939
March 02, 2013
Sach da xuat ban
4.38 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions
4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1999
4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
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“Fish gotta swim Bird gotta fly Man gotta sit and say Why why why” ― Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are seen as the centers and others such as Sextus Empiricus—whose extant works are comparable both in extent and in importance to those of Plato and Aristotle and as representative of the Greek philosophical tradition—are not heard of. In fact, Plato too is censored, in that the Parmenides, which Plotinus regarded as the essential Platonic work, is regarded as a joke or a game, and passages such as “destroying the hypotheses” in the Republic are either edited out of the text or interpreted out of the commentary. The fact that Greek philosophy from the very beginning was characterized by critical dialectic and by the ethics of retreat that often attends it is not studied in our schools. When attention is occasionally paid to, say, Pyrrhonic skepticism, it is seen as outrageous and inhuman. Greek philosophy has, in effect, been forced into the mold of European philosophy, when in fact it had a great deal more in common with its contemporaneous Indian thought.” ― Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
“Important “round” numbers in the sexagesimal system include the base of 60; its square, 3,600 (602), which the Sumerians called sar or universe; and its fourth power, 12,960,000 (3,60o2 or 604), which has been called “The greatest sacred number in Babylonia … the sar squared.”13 This system was founded, Neugebauer says, on a “decimal substrate” the decimal system, in other words, had been invented first, and interacted with the emerging sexa-gesimality. Thus we find sexagesimal units like 30 or 60 interacting with decimal units such as 5 or I0. Sixty twice, for example, is 120, which times ten is 1,200, a common number in the texts that flow from this tradition. Six gets special prominence as the decimal reduction of 60; from this interplay arise 36 (6 X 6) and 360 (6 X 60), which also have other connections with the system: 360 X 12 = 4,320, and so on. These numbers interact with calendrical units: 60 / 5 (days in Babylonian week) = 12 (months—nations—in a year) 12 X 6 (decimal contraction of 60) = 72 (weeks in a Babylonian year) 5 X 72 = 360 (days in a Babylonian year) 6 X 72 = 432 (a common round number in the tradition)” ― Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
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The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
Art and Discontent: Theory at the Millennium
Sculpture in the Age of Doubt
Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism
Art and Otherness: Crisis in Cultural Identity
Art, Love, Friendship: Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Together & Apart
Charles A.A. Dellschau
Yves the Provocateur: Yves Klein and Twentieth-Century Art
The Exile's Return: Toward a Redefinition of Painting for the Post-Modern Era
Pat Steir
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July 13, 1939
March 02, 2013
Sach da xuat ban
4.38 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions
4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1999
4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
4.50 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995
“Fish gotta swim Bird gotta fly Man gotta sit and say Why why why” ― Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
“The European reception of Greek philosophy has been dominated by a model in which Plato and Aristotle are seen as the centers and others such as Sextus Empiricus—whose extant works are comparable both in extent and in importance to those of Plato and Aristotle and as representative of the Greek philosophical tradition—are not heard of. In fact, Plato too is censored, in that the Parmenides, which Plotinus regarded as the essential Platonic work, is regarded as a joke or a game, and passages such as “destroying the hypotheses” in the Republic are either edited out of the text or interpreted out of the commentary. The fact that Greek philosophy from the very beginning was characterized by critical dialectic and by the ethics of retreat that often attends it is not studied in our schools. When attention is occasionally paid to, say, Pyrrhonic skepticism, it is seen as outrageous and inhuman. Greek philosophy has, in effect, been forced into the mold of European philosophy, when in fact it had a great deal more in common with its contemporaneous Indian thought.” ― Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
“Important “round” numbers in the sexagesimal system include the base of 60; its square, 3,600 (602), which the Sumerians called sar or universe; and its fourth power, 12,960,000 (3,60o2 or 604), which has been called “The greatest sacred number in Babylonia … the sar squared.”13 This system was founded, Neugebauer says, on a “decimal substrate” the decimal system, in other words, had been invented first, and interacted with the emerging sexa-gesimality. Thus we find sexagesimal units like 30 or 60 interacting with decimal units such as 5 or I0. Sixty twice, for example, is 120, which times ten is 1,200, a common number in the texts that flow from this tradition. Six gets special prominence as the decimal reduction of 60; from this interplay arise 36 (6 X 6) and 360 (6 X 60), which also have other connections with the system: 360 X 12 = 4,320, and so on. These numbers interact with calendrical units: 60 / 5 (days in Babylonian week) = 12 (months—nations—in a year) 12 X 6 (decimal contraction of 60) = 72 (weeks in a Babylonian year) 5 X 72 = 360 (days in a Babylonian year) 6 X 72 = 432 (a common round number in the tradition)” ― Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
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