The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature

By Pierre Hadot

Nearly 25 hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic wprds 'Phusis kruptesthai philei'. How the aphorism, usually translated as 'nature loves to hide', has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674023161
• ISBN13: 9780674023161
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.3" x 5.5"