Seneca''s Affective Cosmos - Subjectivity, Feeling, Knowledge in Natural Questions Beyond

Chiara Graf examines the role of emotion in the scientific, philosophical, and literary works of Seneca the Younger, reading several of the Roman philosopher's key texts in dialogue with modern studies in affect theory.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Editions of Works Quoted


• Introduction


• 1: Self and Cosmos


• 2: Natural Disaster, Stupefaction, and Anxiety


• 3: Comets and Seneca's Double Miratio


• 4: Wonder and Exemplarity in the Epistulae Morales


• 5: Hope, Fear, and the Future in Seneca's Troades


• Epilogue: Affect and the Feminine


• Works Cited


• Index

About the author

Chiara Graf is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland.

Summary

Chiara Graf examines the role of emotion in the scientific, philosophical, and literary works of Seneca the Younger, reading several of the Roman philosopher's key texts in dialogue with modern studies in affect theory.

Product details

• Authors: Chiara Graf, Chiara (Assistant Professor of Classics Graf
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2024
• EAN: 9780198907008
• ISBN: 978-0-19-890700-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Social History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500