Gerard Naddaf. The Greek Concept of Nature. NY: SUNY Press, 2005. [Book Review]

This work – a considerable expansion of an earlier work in French by the same author, and projected to involve three volumes in total – is a study of Pre–Socratic writings in the genre of historia peri phuseōs: ac-counts of nature (phusis). Gerard Naddaf argues that to speak of nature involved giving an account from the origins of the cosmos up to the pre-sent, and that the origins of the cosmos, of human and animal life, and of the polis – cosmogony, anthropogony, and politogony – were all foci for explanation in peri physeōs accounts.