Dynamic Reading (eBook, PDF)

Studies in the Reception of Epicureanism
Redaktion: Holmes, Brooke; Shearin, W. H.

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Produktbeschreibung

Dynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicureanism in the West, focusing in particular on the ways in which it has provided conceptual tools for defining how we read and respond to texts, art, and the world more generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199795024
• Artikelnr.: 38144063

Autorenporträt

Brooke Holmes is Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University W. H. Shearin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Miami

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction, Brooke Holmes and W. H. Shearin
* 1. Haunting Nepos: Atticus and the Performance of Roman Epicurean
Death, W. H. Shearin
* 2. Epicurus's Mistresses: Pleasure, Authority, and Gender in the
Reception of the Kuriai Doxai in the Second Sophistic, Richard
Fletcher
* 3. Reading for Pleasure: Disaster and Digression in the First
Renaissance Commentary on Lucretius, Gerard Passannante
* 4. Discourse ex nihilo: Epicurus and Lucretius in Sixteenth-century
England, Adam Rzepka
* 5. Engendering Modernity: Epicurean Women from Lucretius to Rousseau,
Natania Meeker
* 6. Oscillate and Reflect: La Mettrie, Materialist Physiology, and the
Revival of the Epicurean Canonic, James Steintrager
* 7. Sensual Idealism: The Spirit of Epicurus and the Politics of
Finitude in Kant and Hölderlin, Anthony Adler
* 8. The Sublime, Today?, Glenn Most
* 9. From Heresy to Nature: Leo Strauss's History of Modern
Epicureanism, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
* 10. Epicurean Presences in Foucault's The Hermeneutics of the
Subject, Alain Gigandet
* 11. Deleuze, Lucretius, and the Simulacrum of Naturalism, Brooke
Holmes
* Bibliography
* Index