Monstrosity and Philosophy

Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture

Filippo Del Lucchese (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-5621-0 (ISBN)

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Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics to respond to the challenge of radical otherness in nature and in thought.

Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. They raise enduring philosophical questions: about chaos and order; about divinity and perversion; about meaning and purpose; about the hierarchy of nature or its absence. Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics to respond to the challenge of radical otherness in nature and in thought.

Filippo Del Lucchese is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Bologna and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His research interests are in the early modern period and the history of political thought and Marxism. He has been a Marie Curie fellow and holds degrees from the universities of Pisa and Paris IV (Sorbonne). He is the author of Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza (Continuum, 2009), The Political Philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli (EUP, 2015), and Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture (EUP, 2019). He has published articles in journals such as History of Political Thought, European Journal of Political Theory, Dialogue, International Studies in Philosophy, and Differences. He has taught in France, Lebanon, the United States and in the UK.

Introduction

1. The Myth and the Logos

1.1 Order and Chaos

1.2 Mythical Battlefields: Monstrosity as a Weapon

1.3 Causality and Monstrosity: Challenging Zeus

2. The Pre-Platonic philosophers

2.1 Anaxagoras: A Material Origin for Life and Monstrosity

2.2 Empedocles: Wonders to Behold

2.3 Democritus: Agonism within Matter

3. Plato

4. Aristotle

5. Epicurus and Lucretius

5.1 An Immanent Causality for an Infinite Universe

5.2 Zoogony, Monstrosity, and Nature’s Normativity

5.3 Concourses of Nature

5.4 Lucretius’s Impact on the Augustan Age

6. Stoicism

6.1 Nominalism

6.2 Good and Evil, Beauty and Ugliness

6.3 Providence, God and Teleology

7. Scepticism

7.1 The Tropes and the Critique of Essentialism

7.2 To What Purpose?

8. Middle and Neoplatonism

8.1 The Material World and the Rediscovery of Transcendence

8.2 Demons

8.3 The World Order

Bibliography

Index Locorum

Index Verborum

Index Rerum

Index Nominum

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2021
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-4744-5621-9 / 1474456219
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-5621-0 / 9781474456210
Zustand	Neuware