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Liza Blake, Jacques Lezra (Beteiligte)

Lucretius and Modernity


Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines
Herausgegeben von Lezra, Jacques; Blake, Liza
1st ed. 2016. 2016. vii, 225 S. 235 mm
Verlag/Jahr: SPRINGER PALGRAVE MACMILLAN; PALGRAVE MACMILLAN US 2016
ISBN: 1-13-759189-7 (1137591897)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-13-759189-0 (9781137591890)

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Lucretius´s long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt´s popular account of the Roman poet´s De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) rediscovery by Poggio Bracciolini, and of its reception in early modernity, winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Despite the poem´s newfound influence and visibility, very little cross-disciplinary conversation has taken place. This edited collection brings together essays by distinguished scholars to examine the relationship between Lucretius and modernity. Key questions weave this book´s ideas and arguments together: What is the relation between literary form and philosophical argument? How does the text of De rerum natura allow itself to be used, at different historical moments and to different ends? What counts as reason for Lucretius? Together, these essays present a nuanced, skeptical, passionate, historically sensitive, and complicated account of what is at stake when we claim Lucretius for modernity.
Introduction; Jacques Lezra and Liza Blake
PART I: WHAT IS MODERN ABOUT LUCRETIUS?
1. Michel Serres´ Nonmodern Lucretius: Manifold Reason and the Temporality of Reception; Brooke Holmes
2. Lucretius and the Symptomatology of Modernism; Joseph Farrell
3. Lucretius the Physicist and Modern Science; David Konstan
PART II: WHAT IS LUCRETIAN ABOUT MODERNITY?
4. The Presence of Lucretius in Eighteenth-Century French and German Philosophy; Catherine Wilson
5. Epicureanism Across the French Revolution; Thomas M. Kavanagh
PART III: LUCRETIAN FIGURES OF MODERNITY: FREEDOM, CAUSE, TRUTH
6. How Modern Is Freedom of the Will?; Phillip Mitsis
7. On the Nature of Marx´s Things; Jacques Lezra
8. All Sense-Perceptions are True: Epicurean Responses to Skepticism and Relativism; Katja Vogt
PART IV: FOLLOWING LUCRETIUS
9. From Clinamen to Conatus: Deleuze, Lucretius, Spinoza; Warren Montag
10. Notes on Leo Strauss´"Notes on Lucretius"; Alain Gigandet
11. Reflections of Lucretius in late antique and early modern Biblical and scientific poetry: Providence and the sublime; Philip Hardie