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Lucretius II

Intro -- Lucretius II -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note on the Translation and Text -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Book III -- 1. A Matter of Desire -- 2. Kinophobia -- 3. Critique of Kinetic Reason -- 4. Dark Materialism -- 5. The Ethics of Motion -- Book IV -- 6. Ethics of the...

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Main Author: Nail, Thomas (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2020
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6145044
E-Book Packages:ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection
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Summary:Intro -- Lucretius II -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note on the Translation and Text -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Book III -- 1. A Matter of Desire -- 2. Kinophobia -- 3. Critique of Kinetic Reason -- 4. Dark Materialism -- 5. The Ethics of Motion -- Book IV -- 6. Ethics of the Simulacrum -- 7. All Perceptions are True -- 8. The Material Unconscious -- Conclusion -- Index.
Human suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: Thomas Nail shows that Lucretius proposed an ethics of motion as simple and stunning solution to these ethical problems in his first-century BC didactic poem De Rerum Natura
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
ISBN:9781474466653