Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics to respond to the challenge of radical otherness in nature and in thought.
Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics to respond to the challenge of radical otherness in nature and in thought.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Filippo Del Lucchese is Professor in History of Political Thought at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna; Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, and Chair at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), The Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza (Continuum Press, 2009).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. The Myth and the Logos 1.1 Order and Chaos 1.2 Mythical Battlefields: Monstrosity as a Weapon 1.3 Causality and Monstrosity: Challenging Zeus 2. The Pre-Platonic philosophers 2.1 Anaxagoras: A Material Origin for Life and Monstrosity 2.2 Empedocles: Wonders to Behold 2.3 Democritus: Agonism within Matter 3. Plato 4. Aristotle 5. Epicurus and Lucretius 5.1 An Immanent Causality for an Infinite Universe 5.2 Zoogony, Monstrosity, and Nature's Normativity 5.3 Concourses of Nature 5.4 Lucretius's Impact on the Augustan Age 6. Stoicism 6.1 Nominalism 6.2 Good and Evil, Beauty and Ugliness 6.3 Providence, God and Teleology 7. Scepticism 7.1 The Tropes and the Critique of Essentialism 7.2 To What Purpose? 8. Middle and Neoplatonism 8.1 The Material World and the Rediscovery of Transcendence 8.2 Demons 8.3 The World Order Bibliography Index Locorum Index Verborum Index Rerum Index Nominum
Introduction 1. The Myth and the Logos 1.1 Order and Chaos 1.2 Mythical Battlefields: Monstrosity as a Weapon 1.3 Causality and Monstrosity: Challenging Zeus 2. The Pre-Platonic philosophers 2.1 Anaxagoras: A Material Origin for Life and Monstrosity 2.2 Empedocles: Wonders to Behold 2.3 Democritus: Agonism within Matter 3. Plato 4. Aristotle 5. Epicurus and Lucretius 5.1 An Immanent Causality for an Infinite Universe 5.2 Zoogony, Monstrosity, and Nature's Normativity 5.3 Concourses of Nature 5.4 Lucretius's Impact on the Augustan Age 6. Stoicism 6.1 Nominalism 6.2 Good and Evil, Beauty and Ugliness 6.3 Providence, God and Teleology 7. Scepticism 7.1 The Tropes and the Critique of Essentialism 7.2 To What Purpose? 8. Middle and Neoplatonism 8.1 The Material World and the Rediscovery of Transcendence 8.2 Demons 8.3 The World Order Bibliography Index Locorum Index Verborum Index Rerum Index Nominum
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