Lucretius I - An Ontology of Motion

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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'. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Note on the Translation and TextAcknowledgementsIntroductionBook I 1. The Birth of Venus 2. Love and War3. Religion4. The Flows of Matter5. The Pores of Matter6. The Event7. The Folds of Matter 8. The Emancipation of the Senses9. The Infinity of MatterBook II10. The Motion of Matter11. The Swerve12. The Form of Matter13. Morphogenesis14. The Sensation of Matter15. The MultiverseLucretius: Our ContemporaryIndex

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Nail, Nail Thomas
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781474434669
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-3466-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works