03767nam 22008295 450 991025524510332120231110151248.09781137566577113756657410.1007/978-1-137-56657-7(CKB)3710000000636103(SSID)ssj0001647630(PQKBManifestationID)16414911(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001647630(PQKBWorkID)13405731(PQKB)11267559(DE-He213)978-1-137-56657-7(MiAaPQ)EBC4716242(Perlego)3500683(EXLCZ)99371000000063610320160318d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrLucretius and Modernity Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines /edited by Jacques Lezra, Liza Blake1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (VII, 225 p.) The New Antiquity,2946-3025Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781137591890 1137591897 9781137581990 1137581999 Includes bibliographical references and index.Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the Roman poet's De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) rediscovery by Poggio Bracciolini, and of its reception in early modernity, winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Despite the poem's newfound influence and visibility, very little cross-disciplinary conversation has taken place. This edited collection brings together essays by distinguished scholars to examine the relationship between Lucretius and modernity. Key questions weave this book's ideas and arguments together: What is the relation between literary form and philosophical argument? How does the text of De rerum natura allow itself to be used, at different historical moments and to different ends? What counts as reason for Lucretius? Together, these essays present a nuanced, skeptical, passionate, historically sensitive, and complicated account of what is at stake when we claim Lucretius for modernity.The New Antiquity,2946-3025LiteraturePhilosophyCultureStudy and teachingEuropean literatureHistory, AncientClassical literatureLiterature, AncientPoetryLiterary TheoryCultural TheoryEuropean LiteratureClassical StudiesClassical and Antique LiteraturePoetry and PoeticsLiteraturePhilosophy.CultureStudy and teaching.European literature.History, Ancient.Classical literature.Literature, Ancient.Poetry.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.European Literature.Classical Studies.Classical and Antique Literature.Poetry and Poetics.187Lezra Jacquesedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBlake Lizaedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910255245103321Lucretius and Modernity2525064UNINA