Lucretius I

The most original and shocking interpretation of Lucretius in the last 40 years

• A new materialist, quantum and feminist interpretation of Lucretius
• Argues the original and provocative thesis that Lucretius was not an atomist but rather the first philosopher of motion
• The most profound revision of how we read Lucretius since Michel Serres' The Birth of Physics (1977)

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Thomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive foundations of modern scientific materialism, whose philosophical origins lie in the atomic reading of Lucretius' immensely influential book De Rerum Natura.

This means that Lucretius was not the revolutionary harbinger of modern science as Greenblatt and others have argued; he was its greatest victim. Nail re-reads De Rerum Natura to offer us a new Lucretius - a Lucretius for today.