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Lucretius I

Lucretius I An Ontology of Motion

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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.

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ISBN: 9781474434676
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 187
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 362g
Height: 206mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 17mm