Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion
ISBN-13:
9781474434676
ISBN-10:
1474434673
Edition:
1
Author:
Thomas Nail
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Format:
Paperback
288 pages
Category:
Greek & Roman
,
Philosophy
,
Metaphysics
,
Individual Philosophers
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ISBN-13:
9781474434676
ISBN-10:
1474434673
Edition:
1
Author:
Thomas Nail
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Format:
Paperback
288 pages
Category:
Greek & Roman
,
Philosophy
,
Metaphysics
,
Individual Philosophers
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Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (ISBN-13: 9781474434676 and ISBN-10: 1474434673), written by authors
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The most original and shocking interpretation of Lucretius in the last 40 years
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.
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.
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