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Anaximander. Ἀναξίμανδρος τῶν δὲ ἓν καὶ κινούμενον καὶ ἀπειρον λεγόντων Ἀ. μἐν Πραξιάδου Μιλήσιος Θαλοῦ γενόμενος διάδοχος καὶ μαθητὴς ἀρχήν τι καὶ στοιχεῖον εἴρηκε τῶν ὄντων τὸ ἄπειρον, πρῶτος τοῦτο τοὔνομα κομίσας τῆς ἀρχῆς. λέγει δ' αὐτὴν μήτε ὕδωρ μήτε ἄλλο τι τῶν καλουμένων εἶναι στοιχείων, ἀλλ' ἑτέραν τινὰ φύσιν ἄπειρον, ἐξ ἧς ἅπαντας γίνεσθαι τοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ τοὺς ἐν αὐτοῖς κόσμους· ἐξ ὧν δὲ ... τάξιν [Β 1], ποιητικωτέροις οὕτως ὀνόμασιν αὐτὰ λέγων.

Anaximander

Anaximandre:Fragments Anaximandre de Milet, fils de Praxiadès, concitoyen et associé de Thales disait que la cause matérielle et l'élément premier des choses était l'infini, et il fut le premier à appeler de ce nom la cause matérielle. Il déclare que ce n'est ni l'eau ni aucun autre des prétendus éléments, mais une substance dif­férente de ceux-ci, qui est infinie, et de laquelle procèdent tous les cieux et les mondes qu'ils renferment. Husserl Page. Bruno-latour.fr.

Enlightenment

Spinoza. Linguistics. Anarcho- Philosophy Now. The Open Philosophy Journal Home Page. (post-)Marx(ism) Deleuze & Guattari. Georges Bataille Electronic Library. Free etexts by 20th century French theorist and writer Georges Bataille.

Georges Bataille Electronic Library

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was by profession a librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. In his off hours, however, he was also a fringe Surrealist, vanguard intellectual, and writer of a wide-ranging body of work that includes philosophy, economics, poetry, and pornography. In all of these writings, Bataille was concerned to articulate a "science of the heterogeneous," a philosophy of everything repudiated by civil society: shit, blood, sacrifice, deviance, violence. The wellsprings of this philosophy apparently lay in personal experience — in particular his childhood with a suicidal mother and a blind, syphilitic father — and yet his ideas resonated deeply with other mid-century philosophy (for example, shit in Bataille's system was analogous to the "other" in Phenomenology and Existentialism) and helped to pave the way to contemporary critical theory.

Texts. eTexts-hegel.net.