| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 281 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Book I -- 1. Birth of Venus -- 2. Love and War -- 3. Religion -- 4. Flows of Matter -- 5. Pores of Matter -- 6. Event -- 7. Folds of Matter -- 8. Emancipation of the Senses -- 9. Infinity of Matter -- Book II -- 10. Motion of Matter -- 11. Swerve -- 12. Form of Matter -- 13. Morphogenesis -- 14. Sensation of Matter -- 15. Multiverse |
| Summary |
Thomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive foundations of modern scientific materialism, whose philosophical origins lie in the atomic reading of Lucretius' immensely influential book De Rerum Natura. This means that Lucretius was not the revolutionary harbinger of modern science as Greenblatt and others have argued; he was its greatest victim. Nail re-reads De Rerum Natura to offer us a new Lucretius--a Lucretius for today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lucretius Carus, Titus. De rerum natura -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Lucrèce (0097?-0055 av. J.-C.). De la nature. ram |
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De rerum natura (Lucretius Carus, Titus) fast |
| Subject |
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474434683 |
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1474434681 |
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