Lucretius I

An Ontology of Motion

Thomas Nail (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3466-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Thomas Nail is Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the award-winning author of eight prestigious University Press books which cover a wide range of topics including migration, borders, technology, digital media, history, science, economics, contemporary politics and climate change. His current research focuses on the influence of mobility on society and the arts in the 21st century. His work has been translated into ten major languages and cited across more than 20 academic disciplines.His published books are Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Oxford University Press, 2020), Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019), Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018), Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012).He also writes for Aeon: Ideas and Culture, The Huffington Post, Quartz, Pacific Standard: The Science of Society, History News Network and Monthly Review.

A Note on the Translation and Text

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Book I

1. The Birth of Venus

2. Love and War

3. Religion

4. The Flows of Matter

5. The Pores of Matter

6. The Event

7. The Folds of Matter

8. The Emancipation of the Senses

9. The Infinity of Matter

Book II

10. The Motion of Matter

11. The Swerve

12. The Form of Matter

13. Morphogenesis

14. The Sensation of Matter

15. The Multiverse

Lucretius: Our Contemporary

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	15 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-3466-5 / 1474434665
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3466-9 / 9781474434669
Zustand	Neuware