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Author | : George Kazantzidis |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2021-04-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110722763 |
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The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius' De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with. However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first sight: just as morbus causes a radical rearrangement of atoms in the body and makes the patient engage with alternative and up to that point unknown dimensions of the sensible world, so does disease as a theme generate a multiplicity of meanings in the text. The present book argues for a reconsideration of morbus in De rerum natura along those lines: it invites the reader to revisit the topic of disease and reflect on the various, and often contrasting, discourses that unfold around it. More specifically, it illustrates how, apart from calling for therapy, disease, due to its dominant presence in the narrative, transforms at the same time into a concept that is integral both to the poem’s philosophical agenda but also to its wider aesthetic concerns as a literary product. The book thus sheds new light on De rerum natura's intense preoccupation with morbus by showing how disease is not exclusively conceived by Lucretius as a blind, obliterating force but is crucially linked to life and meaning—both inside and outside the text.
Author | : George Kazantzidis |
Publisher | : de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2021-05-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110722659 |
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The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius' De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with. However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first sight: just as morbus, causes a radical rearrangement of atoms in the body and makes the patient engage with alternative and up to that point unknown dimensions of the sensible world, so does disease as a theme generate a multiplicity of meanings in the text. The present book argues for a reconsideration of morbus in De rerum natura along those lines: it invites the reader to revisit the topic of disease and reflect on the various, and often contrasting, discourses that unfold around it. More specifically, it illustrates how, apart from calling for therapy, disease, due to its dominant presence in the narrative, transforms at the same time into a concept that is integral both to the poem's philosophical agenda but also to its wider aesthetic concerns as a literary product. The book thus sheds new light on De rerum natura's intense preoccupation with morbus by showing how disease is not exclusively conceived by Lucretius as a blind, obliterating force but is crucially linked to life and meaning--both inside and outside the text.
Author | : George Kazantzidis |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2021-04-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110722925 |
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The standard view in scholarship is that disease in Lucretius' De rerum natura is mainly a problem to be solved and then dispensed with. However, a closer reading suggests that things are more layered and complex than they appear at first sight: just as morbus causes a radical rearrangement of atoms in the body and makes the patient engage with alternative and up to that point unknown dimensions of the sensible world, so does disease as a theme generate a multiplicity of meanings in the text. The present book argues for a reconsideration of morbus in De rerum natura along those lines: it invites the reader to revisit the topic of disease and reflect on the various, and often contrasting, discourses that unfold around it. More specifically, it illustrates how, apart from calling for therapy, disease, due to its dominant presence in the narrative, transforms at the same time into a concept that is integral both to the poem’s philosophical agenda but also to its wider aesthetic concerns as a literary product. The book thus sheds new light on De rerum natura's intense preoccupation with morbus by showing how disease is not exclusively conceived by Lucretius as a blind, obliterating force but is crucially linked to life and meaning—both inside and outside the text.
Author | : Charles Segal |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1400861292 |
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In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus's abstract treatment--the fear of the process of dying and the fear of nothingness. Lucretius, Segal argues, deals more specifically with the body in dying because he draws on the Roman concern with corporeality as well as on the rich traditions of epic and tragic poetry on mortality. Segal explains how Lucretius's sensitivity to the vulnerability of the body's boundaries connects the deaths of individuals with the deaths of worlds, thereby placing human death into the poem's larger context of creative and destructive energies in the universe. The controversial ending of the poem, which describes the plague at Athens, is thus the natural culmination of a theme developed over the course of the work. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Didactic poetry, Latin |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Cosmology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lucretius |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 527 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1625581556 |
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De rerum natura (The Way Things Are) is a 1st century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. Lucretius presents the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. The universe described in the poem operates according to these physical principles, guided by fortuna, "chance," and not the divine intervention of the traditional Roman deities.
Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Cosmology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Titus Lucretius Carus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1872 |
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Download Lucretius on the Nature of Things. Translated Into English Verse by C. F. Johnson, with Introduction and Notes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle