Lucretius I

Lucretius I
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781474434683
ISBN-13 : 1474434681
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Download or read book Lucretius I written by Thomas Nail and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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