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ronocoolo's review
4.0
The first thing I noticed about Heraclitus when googling him was all the translation discourse. People saying the most common translation, the one showing up in Penguin's edition of the book, wasn't very good so I looked at the translations that people most often cited as the best and this was one of them and I found it to be a really good introduction to Heraclitus.
This edition has really interesting analysis of each of the segments and talks a lot about the translating and history of the text. It also talks a little bit about Heraclitus' use of language which is quite interesting, especially his use of paradoxes.
It's easy to see how influential this text was, there's a lot of Hegel in this (though admittedly I haven't read any but from what I've heard about Hegel's dialectic and view of history a lot of the phrases in here are very similar). I also hazard to guess that this could've been quite influential on Spinoza. Really interesting text that doesn't get mentioned nearly enough.
This edition has really interesting analysis of each of the segments and talks a lot about the translating and history of the text. It also talks a little bit about Heraclitus' use of language which is quite interesting, especially his use of paradoxes.
It's easy to see how influential this text was, there's a lot of Hegel in this (though admittedly I haven't read any but from what I've heard about Hegel's dialectic and view of history a lot of the phrases in here are very similar). I also hazard to guess that this could've been quite influential on Spinoza. Really interesting text that doesn't get mentioned nearly enough.
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