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Dynamic Reading
Studies in the Reception of Epicureanism
Brooke Holmes and W. H. Shearin
416 pages
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7 color h/t; 9 b&w h/t
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140x216mm
978-0-19-979495-9
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Hardback
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24 May 2012
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- Brings together new essays from an international cast of scholars
- Covers the reception and influences of Epicureanism up through the recent past
Dynamic Reading examines the reception history of Epicurean philosophy through a series of eleven case studies, which range chronologically from the latter days of the Roman Republic to late twentieth-century France and America. Rather than attempting to separate an original Epicureanism from its later readings and misreadings, this collection studies the philosophy together with its subsequent reception, focusing in particular on the ways in which it has provided terms and conceptual tools for defining how we read and respond to texts, artwork, and the world more generally. Whether it helps us to characterize the "swerviness" of literary
influence, the transformative effects of philosophy, or the "events" that shape history, Epicureanism has been a dynamic force in the intellectual history of the West. These essays seek to capture some of that dynamism.Readership: Scholars and graduate students in classics, art history, English, German, French, and the history of philosophy and ideas.
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Brooke Holmes, Assistant Professor of Classics, Princeton University, and W. H. Shearin, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Miami Brooke Holmes is Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University
W. H. Shearin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Miami Contributors:
Brooke Holmes, Princeton University; W. H. Shearin, University of Miami; Richard Fletcher, The Ohio State University; Gerard Passannante, University of Maryland, College Park; Adam Rzepka, Stanford University; Natania Meeker, University of Southern California; James Steintrager, University of California, Irvine; Anthony Adler, Yonsei University (South Korea); Glenn Most, Scuola Normale Superiore de Pisa and the University of Chicago; Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, The New School for Social Research; Alain Gigandet, Universit de Paris Est (XII)
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Introduction, Brooke Holmes and W. H. Shearin
1. Haunting Nepos: Atticus and the Performance of Roman Epicurean Death, W. H. Shearin
2. Epicurus's Mistresses: Pleasure, Authority, and Gender in the Reception of the Kuriai Doxai in the Second Sophistic, Richard Fletcher
3. Reading for Pleasure: Disaster and Digression in the First Renaissance Commentary on Lucretius, Gerard Passannante
4. Discourse ex nihilo: Epicurus and Lucretius in Sixteenth-century England, Adam Rzepka
5. Engendering Modernity: Epicurean Women from Lucretius to Rousseau, Natania Meeker
6. Oscillate and Reflect: La Mettrie, Materialist Physiology, and the Revival of the Epicurean Canonic, James Steintrager
7. Sensual Idealism: The Spirit of Epicurus and the Politics of Finitude in Kant and Hölderlin, Anthony Adler
8. The Sublime, Today?, Glenn Most
9. From Heresy to Nature: Leo Strauss's History of Modern Epicureanism, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
10. Epicurean Presences in Foucault's The Hermeneutics of the Subject, Alain Gigandet
11. Deleuze, Lucretius, and the Simulacrum of Naturalism, Brooke Holmes
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