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Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines de Jacques Lezra

Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines: The New Antiquity

Editat de Jacques Lezra, Liza Blake
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2016
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137591890
ISBN-10: 1137591897
Pagini: 225
Ilustrații: VII, 225 p.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria The New Antiquity

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

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


Recenzii

"In a series of masterful essays, Lucretius and Modernity offers an astutely philological and multidisciplinary assessment of the pertinence of De rerum natura, both how the work anticipates a variety of conceptions of modernity and how modern readings activate striking latencies contained in this singular Latin poem. Much more than a straightforward account of reception history, this exemplary collection radically presses the limits of reading the past in the present and the present in the past." - John T. Hamilton, William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA


"The return of Lucretius has been one of the more remarkable developments in the humanities over recent years. This scintillating collection offers diverse and focussed challenges to rethink how responses to Lucretius have shaped, and continue to shape, our sense of the Western intellectual tradition." - Duncan F. Kennedy, author of Rethinking Reality:Lucretius and the Textualization of Nature 
 

"Lucretius, writing in the first century before the Common Era, is one of our greatest philosophical contemporaries. He teaches us how to think the atom, the swerve and accident, and freedom: this book, taking stock of the poem's reception across disciplines and periods, persuades us with great force of Lucretius's continuing modernity." - Barbara Cassin, Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
 

Notă biografică

Jacques Lezra is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at New York University, and a member of the Departments of English and German. He is the co-editor of Dictionary of Untranslatables (Princeton, 2014), with Emily Apter and Michael Wood; the author of Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (Fordham, 2010; Spanish translation 2012; Chinese translation 2013); and the editor of the Northwestern University Press book series IDIOM, with Paul North. Lezra won the PEN Critical Editions Award for his translation into Spanish of Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight.
Liza Blake is an Assistant Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga and an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Department of English at the University of Toronto. She has published in the journals postmedieval and SEL: Studies in English Literature, and in the edited volumes Ornamentalism: The Art of Renaissance Accessories, ed. Bella Mirabella, SpeculativeMedievalisms: Discography, ed. Eileen Joy et al, and the Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature, Science, and Culture, ed. Evelyn Tribble and Howard Marchitello, forthcoming 2015.

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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.