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Lucretius III : A History of Motion /
A guidebook to living in a world that's destined to die, through a new reading of Lucretius' De Rerum NaturaPresents a new theory of history based on movement, as opposed to time Offers a unique theory of evolutionary materialismCan be read separately or along with Lucretius I and Lucretiu...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- A Note on the Translation and Text
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: Death in the Time of Covid
- Introduction: The Birth of Death
- Book V
- 1. Making History
- 2. The Birth of the World
- 3. The Death of the World
- 4. It's a Turbulent Whirled
- 5. Evolutionary Materialism
- 6. A Brief History of Language
- 7. Eros and Civilisation
- Book VI
- 8. A Hymn to Ruin
- 9. As Above, So Below
- 10. Of Poisons and Plagues
- Conclusion: Unmaking History
- Afterword
- Index