Monstrosity and Philosophy
Subtitle: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781474456203
Subjects: Philosophy
Description: Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in ancient culture. They raise enduring philosophical questions: about chaos and order; about divinity and perversion; about meaning and purpose; about the hierarchy of nature or its absence. Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics to respond to the challenge of radical otherness in nature and in thought.