Christopher Gill

The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic--especially Stoic and Epicurean--philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of Stoic and Epicurean ideas is illustrated by a more detailed examination of the Stoic theory of the passions and a new account of the history of this theory. His study also tackles issues about the historical study of selfhood and the relationship between philosophy and literature, especially the presentation of the collapse of character in Plutrarch's Lives, Senecan tragedy, and Virgil's Aeneid. As all Greek and Latin is translated, this book presents original ideas about ancient concepts of personality to a wide range of readers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 163mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 943g
• ISBN-13: 9780198152682
• ISBN-10: 019815268X
• Artikelnr.: 21406737

Autorenporträt

Christopher Gill is Professor of Ancient Thought, University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. The Structured Self in Stoicism and Epicureanism
1: Psychophysical Holism in Stoicism and Epicureanism
2: Psychological Holism and Socratic Ideals
3: Development and the Structured Self
II. The Unstructured Self: Stoic Passions and the Reception of Plato
4: Competing Readings of Stoic Passions
5: Competing Readings of Platonic Psychology
III. Theoretical Issues and Literary Reception
6: Issues in Selfhood: Subjectivity and Objectivity
7: Literary Reception: Structured and Unstructured Selves