Many modern critics have treated Seneca as an innovator in historical understandings of 'selfhood' and self-awareness. This volume of essays by internationally well-known scholars promises to reshape our understanding of Seneca, and to establish once and for all his place as a student of the human psyche.
Many modern critics have treated Seneca as an innovator in historical understandings of 'selfhood' and self-awareness. This volume of essays by internationally well-known scholars promises to reshape our understanding of Seneca, and to establish once and for all his place as a student of the human psyche.
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.
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.
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