Seneca and the Self

Herausgeber: Bartsch, Shadi; Wray, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Twelve essays by internationally well-known scholars which reshape our understanding of Seneca as a student of the human psyche.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780521888387
• ISBN-10: 0521888387
• Artikelnr.: 25546174

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Seneca and the Self: New Directions: 1. Introduction Shadi Bartsch
and David Wray; 2. Seneca on the self: why now? A. A. Long; Part II.
Philosophical Perspectives: 3. Seneca and self assertion Brad Inwood; 4.
Seneca and selfhood: integration and disintegration Christopher Gill; 5.
Stoic laughter: a reading of Seneca's Apocolocyntosis Martha Nussbaum; Part
III. Seneca and Roman Culture: 6. Seneca on fortune and the Kingdom of God
Elizabeth Asmis; 7. Free yourself! Slavery, freedom and the self in
Seneca's letters Catharine Edwards; 8. Seneca on self-examination:
rereading On Anger 3.36 James Ker; 9. Senecan metaphor and stoic
self-instruction Shadi Bartsch; Part IV. Reading the Tragedies: 10. Seneca
and the denial of the self Alessandro Schiesaro; 11. Seneca and tragedy's
reason David Wray; 12. Dissolution of the self in the Senecan corpus Austin
Busch.