Lucretius and modernity : Epicurean encounters across time and disciplines /
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. |
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| Description: | vi, 225 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The new antiquity New antiquity. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10491787 |
Table of Contents:
- What is modern about Lucretius? / Michel Serres
- Modern Lucretius: manifold reason and the temporality of reception / Brooke Holmes
- Lucretius and the symptomatology of modernism / Joseph Farrell
- Lucretius the physicist and modern science / David Konstan
- What is Lucretian about modernity?
- The presence of Lucretius in eighteenth-century French and German philosophy / Catherine Wilson
- Epicureanism across the French revolution / Thomas M. Kavanagh
- Lucretian figures of modernity: freedom, cause, truth
- How modern is freedom of the will? / Phillip Mitsis
- On the nature of Marx's things / Jacques Lezra
- All sense-perceptions are true: Epicurean responses to skepticism and relativism / Katja Vogt
- Following Lucretius
- From clinamen to conatus: Deleuze, Lucretius, Spinoza / Warren Montag
- Notes on Leo Strauss' "Notes on Lucretius" / Alain Gigandet
- Reflections of Lucretius in late antique and early modern Biblical and scientific poetry: providence and the sublime / Philip Hardie.
