Dynamic Reading
Studies in the Reception of Epicureanism
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2011
432 pages
978-0-19-979502-4 (ISBN)
Description
Dynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicureanism in the West, focusing in particular on the ways in which it has provided conceptual tools for defining how we read and respond to texts, art, and the world more generally.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Note on Editions
- Introduction: Swerves, Events, and Unexpected Effects
- 1. Haunting Nepos: Atticus and the Performance of Roman Epicurean Death
- 2. Epicurus's Mistresses : Pleasure, Authority, and Gender in the Reception of the Kuriai Doxai in the Second Sophistic
- 3. Reading for Pleasure: Disaster and Digression in the First Renaissance Commentary on Lucretius
- 4. Discourse Ex Nihilo : Epicurus and Lucretius in Sixteenth-Century England
- 5. Engendering Modernity: Epicurean Women from Lucretius to Rousseau
- 6. Oscillate and Reflect: La Mettrie, Materialist Physiology, and the Revival of the Epicurean Canonic
- 7. Sensual Idealism: The Spirit of Epicurus and the Politics of Finitude in Kant and Hölderlin
- 8. The Sublime, Today?
- 9. From Heresy to Nature: Leo Strauss's History of Modern Epicureanism
- 10. Epicurean Presences in Foucault's The Hermeneutics of the Subject
- 11. Deleuze, Lucretius, and the Simulacrum of Naturalism
- Bibliography
- Index
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