Oxford handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism / edited by Phillip Mitsis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitsis, Phillip, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epicurus.

Epicureans (Greek philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 pages).

Other Title:

Epicurus and Epicureanism

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (340-271 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the soul, has at the same time been an ongoing source of inspiration for a great variety of subsequent philosophers, poets, and political thinkers. This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of Epicurus's philosophy and then traces out some of its most important later influences throughout the Western intellectual tradition. Epicurean arguments are carefully placed in their ancient and subsequent intellectual contexts, thus offering readers the opportunity of measuring them against a wide range of opponents - from Platonists, Aristotelians, and Stoics, to Hegel and Nietzsche, and finally on to such influential contemporary philosophers as Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams, and Jacques Derrida.

Contents:

Epicurus and the Epicurean School / Tiziano Dorandi

Politics and Society / Geert Roskam

Plutarch / Michael Erler

Lucretius / Monica R. Gale

Philodemus and the Herculaneum Papyri / Mario Capasso

Diogenes of Oenoanda / Pamela Gordon

Friendship / Phillip Mitsis

Poetics / Michael McOsker

Rhetoric / Clive Chandler

Horace and Virgil / Gregson Davis

Seneca and Epicurus / Margaret Graver

Atomism / David Konstan

Postmodernism / Eva Marie Noller, W. H. Shearin

Epicurus and Epicureanism in Rabbinic Literature, Maimonides, and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov / Gabriel Danzig

Early Christianity / Ilaria Ramelli

Materialism and Early Modern "Natural History of Man" / Ann Thomson

Early Modern Epicureanism: Gassendi and Hobbes in Dialogue on Psychology, Ethics, and Politics / Gianni Paganini

Thomas Jefferson / Carl J. Richard

Epicureanism and Utilitarianism / A. A. Long

Epicurus in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche / James I. Porter

Epistemology / Gisela Striker

Hedonism / Voula Tsouna

Epicurus in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Thought: A "Freedom of Pleasures"? / Thomas M. Kavanagh

Theology / Emidio Spinelli, Francesco Verde

Humanist Dissemination of Epicureanism / Ada Palmer

Language / Enrico Piergiacomi

Cicero / Carlos Lévy

Psychology / Elizabeth Asmis

Voluntary Action and Responsibility / Walter Englert

Cosmology and Meteorology / Daryn Lehoux

Death / Stephen E. Rosenbaum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2020).

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780199983636

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