Anaximander and the Architects

Anaximander and the ArchitectsUses textual and archaeological evidence to argue that emerging Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies were crucial to the origins and development of Greek philosophy. Anaximander and the Architects opens a previously unexplored avenue into Presocratic philosophy the technology of monumental architecture. The evidence, coming directly from sixth century B. C. E. building sites and bypassing Aristotle, shows how the architects and their projects

making an important contribution to the intersecting fields of new religious movements

death as a concept has not been nearly as central a preoccupation in Chinese culture as it has been in the West

national and identity in the long nineteenth century

" a force of unprecedented size and impressiveness

That ruled out the Roman Catholic sisterhood as so quasi-erotically portrayed by Audrey Hepburn in Page's favorite movie

covering consumption

and his influence

Set over a single day

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems explores subjects such as the supernatural

they discover hidden treasures and encounter fierce obstacles including pirates

authorship and audience

including Leibniz