Lucretius and modernity
Subtitle: Epicurean encounters across time and disciplines
By: edited by Jacques Lezra and Liza Blake
Series: The new antiquity; New antiquity
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781137581990; 9781137591890
Subjects: Epicureans (Greek philosophy); Criticism and interpretation; Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is modern about Lucretius? Michel Serres's non-modern Lucretius: manifold reason and the temporality of reception / Brooke Holmes; title: Lucretius and the symptomatology of modernism / Joseph Farrell; title: Lucretius the physicist and modern science / David Konstan; title: What is Lucretian about modernity? The presence of Lucretius in Eighteenth-Century French and German philosophy / Catherine Wilson; title: Epicureanism across the French Revolution / Thomas M. Kavanagh; title: Lucretian figures of modernity: freedom, cause, truth. How modern is freedom of the will? / Phillip Mitsis; title: On the nature of Marx's things / Jacques Lezra; title: All sense-perceptions are true: Epicurean responses to skepticism and relativism / Katja Maria Vogt; title: Following Lucretius. From clinamen to conatus: Deleuze, Lucretius, Spinoza / Warren Montag; title: Notes on Leo Strauss' "Notes on Lucretius" / Alain Gigandet; title: Reflections of Lucretius in late antique and early modern Biblical and scientific poetry: providence and the sublime / Philip Hardie.