Lucretius III : A History of Motion
by
Thomas Nail
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1474464238
ISBN-13
9781474464239
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 8th, 2022
Print length
232 Pages
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalPhilosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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A guidebook to living in a world that's destined to die, through a new reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
For Lucretius, history means something surprisingly different than we ordinarily think. Instead of thinking of history in terms of time, he thought of it in terms of motion. This book unpacks the implications of this unique kinetic philosophy of history. In the final volume of his trilogy on Lucretius, Thomas Nail argues that in books five and six of De Rerum Natura, Lucretius described a world born to die long before humans theorised about thermodynamics or began to see the catastrophic consequences of man-made climate change. What does it mean to live in such a world; a world that is increasinly obviously our world? Nail shows us how De Rerum Natura provides a guidebook for us to answer this question.
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