TY - BOOK ID - 689773 TI - In Search of Pythagoreanism PY - 2013 VL - Bd. 4 SN - 18697143 SN - 9783110306279 9783110306507 3110306506 3110306271 9781299723504 1299723500 PB - Berlin De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - History of philosophy KW - Pythagoras KW - Pythagoriciens KW - Histoire KW - Historiographie KW - Pythagore, KW - Pythagoras. KW - Influence KW - Pitágora KW - Pitagora di Samo KW - Pitágoras KW - Pitágoras de Samos KW - Pythagore KW - Πυθαγόρας KW - فيثاغورس KW - Historiographie. KW - Histoire. KW - Historiography of Ancient Thought. KW - History of Ancient Philosophy. KW - Philosophie der Antike. KW - Presocratics. KW - Pythagoreanism. KW - Pythagoreismus. KW - Vorsokratiker. KW - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:689773 AB - The history of Pythagoreanism is littered with different and incompatible interpretations, to the point that Kahn (1974) suggested that, instead of another thesis on Pythagoreanism, it would be preferable to assess traditions with the aim of producing a good historiographical presentation. This almost fourty-year-old observation by Kahn, directs the author of this book towards a fundamentally historiographical rather than philological brand of work, that is, one neither exclusively devoted to the exegesis of sources such as Philolaus, Archytas or even of one of the Hellenistic Lives nor even to the theoretical approach of one of the themes that received specific contributions from Pythagoreanism, such as mathematics, cosmology, politics or theories of the soul. Instead, this monograph sets out to reconstruct the way in which the tradition established Pythagoreanism’s image, facing one of the central problems that characterizes Pythagoreanism more than other ancient philosophical movements: the drastically shifting terrain of the criticism of the sources. The goal of this historiographical approach is to embrace Pythagoreanism in its entirety, through - and not in spite of - its complex articulation across more than a millennium. ER -