Thomas Nail

Lucretius II (eBook, PDF)

An Ethics of Motion

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Produktbeschreibung

Human suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: almost 2,000 ago Lucretius proposed an ethics of motion as simple and stunning solution to these ethical problems. Thomas Nail argues that Lucretius was the first to locate the core of all these ethical ills in our obsession with stasis, our fear of movement and our hatred of matter. Instead of trying to transcend nature with our minds, escape it with our immortal souls and dominate it with our technologies, Lucretius was perhaps the first in the Western tradition to forcefully argue for a completely materialist, immanent and naturalistic ethics based on moving well with and as nature. If we want to survive and live well on this planet, Lucretius taught us, our best chance is not to struggle against nature but to embrace it and facilitate its movement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474466653
• Artikelnr.: 72430953

Autorenporträt

Thomas Nail is Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the award-winning author of eight prestigious University Press books which cover a wide range of topics including migration, borders, technology, digital media, history, science, economics, contemporary politics and climate change. His current research focuses on the influence of mobility on society and the arts in the 21st century. His work has been translated into ten major languages and cited across more than 20 academic disciplines.His published books are Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Oxford University Press, 2020), Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019), Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018), Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012).He also writes for Aeon: Ideas and Culture, The Huffington Post, Quartz, Pacific Standard: The Science of Society, History News Network and Monthly Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction An Ethics of Motion Lucretian Ethics - Against Stasis, Against
ataraxia - Against Transcendent Values Method - Historical Ontology - Close
Reading - Translation - Argumentation Conclusion Notes
Book III
1. A Matter of Desire Against Religion False Footsteps Pedetic Ethics -
Materialist Ethics - The Swallow - The Goat - The Bee The Birth of Spring
The Ecstasy of the Sensuous Conclusion Notes
2. Kinophobia Death Matters Liquid Desire Practical Ethics The Mask of
Materialism Statism and the Wound of Life Primitive Accumulation Of Stasis,
Statues, and States Hatred of the Body Pietas: Collective Ethics
Transcendental Materialism Conclusion Notes
3. Critique of Kinetic Reason
The Material Conditions of Reason Critique of Harmonic Reason - The
Discordant Harmony of the Soul Critique of Pure Emotion - Affect Theory
Weaving the Soul - Critique of Atomic Reason Conclusion Notes
4. Dark Materialism Folded Matters - The Material Soul - The Folded Soul -
The Elemental Soul The Ethical Indeterminacy of Matter - Touching on Nature
Ontology and Ethics The Thermodynamics of Emotion Thermodynamic Ethics The
Dying Soul Decaying Life The Movement of Death - The Woven Vessel The
Scatology of Spirit Migrant Nature Conclusion Notes
5. The Ethics of Motion Death has no Value The Kinetic Theory of Memory
Ethical Abstraction Ethics for a Leaky Basket Property is Theft! What is
the Ethics of Motion? - Pedetic Ethics: Tantalus and Fors Fortuna -
Entropic Ethics: Tityos and Leto - Collective Ethics: Sisyphus and Fasces
Conclusion Notes
Book IV
6. Ethics of the Simulacrum The Language of Flowers Process Ethics of the
Simulacrum Theory of the Simulacrum - Diffraction Drawing Figures -
Swerving Figures Material Ecology and Environmental Affect - Weaving String
Figures Brevi spatio, temporis in puncto Conclusion Notes
7. All Perceptions are True The Flow of Things Interweaving Sensation
Mathesis naturalis The Fault of the Mind Against Scepticism: Against
Idealism The Diffractive Harmony of the Senses The Language of the World
The Ecokinetic Imagination Conclusion Notes
8. The Material Unconscious Against Utilitarianism Nature's Mind Knowledge
and Dreams Libido The Wound of Love The Knots of Love Feminine Desire
Maternal Seeds Semele and Dionysus Conclusion Notes
Conclusion The New Lucretius The Kinetic Lucretius Motivations and
Aspirations Notes
Index