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Dynamic reading [electronic resource] : studies in the reception of Epicureanism / [edited by] Brooke Holmes and W.H. Shearin

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New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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1 online resource
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Holmes, Brooke, 1976- and Shearin, W. H.
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Haunting Nepos: Atticus and the Performance of Roman Epicurean Death / W. H. Shearin -- 2.Epicurus's Mistresses: Pleasure, Authority, and Gender in the Reception of the Kuriai Doxai in the Second Sophistic / Richard Fletcher -- 3.Reading for Pleasure: Disaster and Digression in the First Renaissance Commentary on Lucretius / Gerard Passannante -- 4.Discourse Ex Nihilo: Epicurus and Lucretius in Sixteenth-Century England / Adam Rzepka -- 5.Engendering Modernity: Epicurean Women from Lucretius to Rousseau / Natania Meeker -- 6.Oscillate and Reflect: La Mettrie, Materialist Physiology, and the Revival of the Epicurean Canonic / James A. Steintrager -- 7.Sensual Idealism: The Spirit of Epicurus and the Politics of Finitude in Kant and Holderlin / Anthony Curtis Adler -- 8.The Sublime, Today? / Glenn W. Most -- 9.From Heresy to Nature: Leo Strauss's History of Modern Epicureanism / Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft -- 10.Epicurean Presences in Foucault's The Hermeneutics of the Subject / Alain Gigandet -- 11.Deleuze, Lucretius, and the Simulacrum of Naturalism / Brooke Holmes.
Summary
'Dynamic Reading' examines the reception history of Epicureanism in the West, focusing in particular on the ways in which it has provided conceptual tools for defining how we read and respond to texts, art, and the world more generally.
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9780199949694 (ebook)
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Series from CIP print version.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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