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Prolegomenon, usually used in its plural form prolegomena, is a long introduction either placed at the head of a book or conveying all the preliminary concepts to a science. It is a prefatory text serving to introduce and interpret an extended work.

Etymology

Prolegomenon derives from the Ancient Greek word προλεγόμενον (prolegómenon), meaning "that which is said beforehand". It is based on πρό- (pró-), meaning "before", λέγειν (légein), meaning "to speak", and μὲν (mèn), an affirmative conjunction meaning "really, truly".

Works

• In 1377, Ibn Khaldun published his prolegomena, Al Muqaddima.
• In 1783, Kant published the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science.
• In 1827, Pierre-Simon Ballanche published Prolegomena for his social Palingenesis.
• Around 1840, Franz Liszt composed the Prolegomena to the Divine Comedy, catalog S 158b (annex to the 3 Petrarch Sonnets initial version, 1844-45, S 158, 2nd version of After a reading of the Dante - Fantasia quasi sonata, in the years of pilgrimage, 2nd year, Italy)
• In 1908, the Egyptologist Émile Amélineau published Prolegomena to the study of the Egyptian religion.
• In 1945 André Breton published Prolegomena to a third manifesto of surrealism or not.
• In 1986, the philosopher and phenomenologist Jean-Luc Marion published Prolegomena to charity.
• In 2012, Jacques Derrida, History of lies: Prolegomena, published by Galileo. This text, however, comes from a lecture given in April 1997 at the International College of Philosophy. It was translated into English in 2002, then published in French in the Cahier de l'Herne Jacques Derrida, directed by Marie-Louise Mallet and Ginette Michaud in 2004.
• In 2012, Benjamin Loiseau, architect, publishes Less is too much? : Dizziness of the void in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and urban insurgency prolegomena.

See also

• Introduction
• Prolegomenon (disambiguation)