| Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion Contributor(s): Nail, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474434673 ISBN-13: 9781474434676 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Philosophy | Individual Philosophers |
| Dewey: 187 |
| LCCN: 2017276559 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.75 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
