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Lucretius on Death and Anxiety : Poetry and Philosophy in DE RERUM NATURA /
"In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranqu...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Lucretius on Death and Anxiety : |b Poetry and Philosophy in DE RERUM NATURA / |c Charles Segal. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Lucretius's Adequacy to the Fear of Death: Logic, Poetry, and Emotion -- |t Atoms, Bodies, and Individuals: Death in Epicurus and Lucretius -- |t The Wind-Scattered Soul -- |t Nothingness and Eternity: The Fear of the Infinite -- |t The World's Body and the Human Body: Walls, Boundaries, and Mortality -- |t The Violation of Corporeal Boundaries, 1 -- |t The Violation of Corporeal Boundaries, 2 -- |t Generals, Poets, and Philosophers: Death in the Perspective of Time and Eternity -- |t War, Death, and Civilization: The End of Book 5 -- |t The Plague Reconsidered: Progress, Poet, and Philosopher -- |t The Fear of Death and the Good Life -- |t Selected Bibliography -- |t Index of Passages -- |t General Index. |
| 520 | |a "In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus's abstract treatment--the fear of the process of dying and the fear of nothingness. Lucretius, Segal argues, deals more specifically with the body in dying because he draws on the Roman concern with corporeality as well as on the rich traditions of epic and tragic poetry on mortality. Segal explains how Lucretius's sensitivity to the vulnerability of the body's boundaries connects the deaths of individuals with the deaths of worlds, thereby placing human death into the poem's larger context of creative and destructive energies in the universe. The controversial ending of the poem, which describes the plague at Athens, is thus the natural culmination of a theme developed over the course of the work."-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
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