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Product Identifiers

PublisherEdinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press

ISBN-101474464246

ISBN-139781474464246

eBay Product ID (ePID)9050393956

Product Key Features

Number of Pages232 Pages

Publication NameLucretius III : a History of Motion

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHistory & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient & Classical, Movements / Realism, Linguistics / General

Publication Year2022

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines

AuthorThomas Nail

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsIn writing a history of matter and of nature, Thomas Nail argues, we are only now catching up with Lucretius' insights. This concluding volume of Nail's impassioned and compelling trilogy continues to pose fresh challenges, philosophical, literary, and historical, to received interpretations of Lucretius., Presenting numerous challenges to traditional perspectives on the Lucretian contribution to literature and philosophy, this volume will both encourage readers to reengage with the poem and stimulate vigorous debate as to its contemporary significance., In an age of pandemics and climate change, Nail offers a Lucretian path to a less destructive and more beautiful world. For a decade, Nail has walked step-by-step with Lucretius. With this concluding volume of the Trilogy, we are invited to follow that ancient philosopher of movement through our history and into our precarious future.

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal187

Table Of ContentPreface: Death in the Time of Covid Introduction: The Birth of Death Book V 1. Making History 2. The Birth of the World 3. The Death of the World 4. It's a Turbulent Whirled 5. Evolutionary Materialism 6. A Brief History of Language 7. Eros and Civilization Book VI 8. A Hymn to Ruin 9. As Above, So Below 10. Of Poisons and Plagues Conclusion: Unmaking History Afterword

SynopsisA guidebook to living in a world that's destined to die, through a new reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, For Lucretius, history means something surprisingly different than we ordinarily think. Instead of thinking of history in terms of time, he thought of it in terms of motion. This book unpacks the implications of this unique kinetic philosophy of history. In the final volume of his trilogy on Lucretius, Thomas Nail argues that in books five and six of De Rerum Natura, Lucretius described a world born to die - long before humans theorised about thermodynamics or began to see the catastrophic consequences of man-made climate change. What does it mean to live in such a world; a world that is increasinly obviously our world? Nail shows us how De Rerum Natura provides a guidebook for us to answer this question.

LC Classification NumberPA6484