Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mitsis, Phillip

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Produktbeschreibung

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the soul during many periods of history, has at the same time been a source of inspiration to figures as diverse as Vergil, Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, and Bentham. This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of Epicurus's philosophy and then traces out some of its most important subsequent influences throughout the Western intellectual tradition. Such a detailed and comprehensive study of Epicureanism is especially timely given the tremendous current revival of interest in Epicurus and his rivals, the Stoics. The thirty-one contributions in this volume offer an unmatched resource for all those wishing to deepen their knowledge of Epicurus' powerful arguments about happiness, death, and the nature of the material world and our place in it. At the same time, his arguments are carefully placed in the context of ancient and subsequent disputes, thus offering readers the opportunity of measuring Epicurean arguments against a wide range of opponents--from Platonists, Aristotelians and Stoics, to Hegel and Nietzsche, and finally on to such important contemporary philosophers as Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams. The volume offers separate and detailed discussions of two fascinating and ongoing sources of Epicurean arguments, the Herculaneum papyri and the inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda. Our understanding of Epicureanism is continually being enriched by these new sources of evidence and the contributors to this volume have been able to make use of them in presenting the most current understanding of Epicurus's own views. By the same token, the second half of the volume is devoted to the extraordinary influence of Epicurean doctrines, often either neglected or misunderstood, in literature, political thinking, scientific innovation, personal conceptions of freedom and happiness, and in philosophy generally. Taken together, the contributions in this volume offer the most comprehensive and detailed account of Epicurus and Epicureanism available in English.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197521991
• Artikelnr.: 59876058

Autorenporträt

Phillip Mitsis is Professor of Classics and Hellenic Studies at New York University and Affiliated Professor of Philosophy, as well as Academic Director of the American Institute for Verdi Studies. He is a past president of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

* Epicurus
* 1. Epicurus and the Epicurean School (Tiziano Dorandi)
* 2. Epistemology (Gisela Striker)
* 3. Atomism (David Konstan)
* 4. Cosmology and Meteorology (Daryn Lehoux)
* 5. Theology (Emidio Spinelli, Francesco Verde)
* 6. Death (Stephen Rosenbaum)
* 7. Hedonism (Voula Tsouna)
* 8. Psychology (Elizabeth Asmis)
* 9. Voluntary Action and Responsibility (Walter Englert)
* 10. Virtue, Friendship, and the Law (Phillip Mitsis)
* 11. Politics and Society (Geert Roskam)
* 12. The Epicurean Analysis of Language: Its Intent and Development
(Enrico Piergiacomi)
* 13. Rhetoric (Clive Chandler)
* 14. Epicurean Poetic Theory (Michael McOsker)
* Ancient Epicureanism and Its Critics
* 15. Philodemus and the Herculaneum Papyri (Mario Capasso)
* 16. Lucretius (Monica Gale)
* 17. Epicureanism in Virgil and Horace (Gregson Davis)
* 18. Anti-Epicureanism in Cicero (Carlos Lévy)
* 19. Seneca's Reception of Epicureanism (Margaret Graver)
* 20. Plutarch (Michael Erler)
* 21. Diogenes of Oenoanda (Pamela Gordon)
* 22. Epicureanism in Jewish Thought (Gabriel Danzig)
* 23. Epicureanism and Early Christianity (Ilaria Ramelli)
* Early Modern and Later Reception
* 24. Renaissance Epicureanism (Ada Palmer)
* 25. Epicurean Materialism and Early Modern science (Ann Thomson)
* 26. Epicurean Influence on Early Modern Political Thought (Gianni
Paganini)
* 27. Epicurus in 18th and 19th Century French Thought (Walter
Kavanagh)
* 28. The Epicureanism of Thomas Jefferson (Carl J. Richard)
* 29. Epicurean Hedonism and Utilitarianism (A.A. Long)
* 30. Epicurus in 19th-Century Germany: Marx and Nietzsche (James
Porter)
* 31. Postmodern Epicureanism (Wilson Shearin, Eva Noller)