PPC spine 17mm, 256 x 333mm Cover sine 13mm, 216 x 289mm 'With Lucretius II, Thomas Nail continues his project of re-reading Lucretius' De rerum natura in a startlingly new fashion - as a foundational text in the philosophy of movement. The results of Nail's labour are breathtaking: traditional pieties of scholarship fall by the wayside, replaced by a Lucretius truly of and for the twenty-first century.' Wilson Shearin, University of Miami More than just a study of Lucretius, Nail provides a stunning reading of an already fascinating philosopher. Nail's originally and beautifully composed…mehr
PPC spine 17mm, 256 x 333mm Cover sine 13mm, 216 x 289mm 'With Lucretius II, Thomas Nail continues his project of re-reading Lucretius' De rerum natura in a startlingly new fashion - as a foundational text in the philosophy of movement. The results of Nail's labour are breathtaking: traditional pieties of scholarship fall by the wayside, replaced by a Lucretius truly of and for the twenty-first century.' Wilson Shearin, University of Miami More than just a study of Lucretius, Nail provides a stunning reading of an already fascinating philosopher. Nail's originally and beautifully composed account of motion generates an ethics worthy of the twenty-first century, allowing us to think of instability as an opportunity for thinking our world anew.' Claire Colebrook, Penn State University An ancient ethics for modern life Suffering, the fear of death, war, ecological destruction, and social inequality are urgent ethical issues today as they were for Lucretius. Thomas Nail argues that Lucretius was the first to locate the core of all these ethical ills in our obsession with stasis, our fear of movement, and our hatred of matter. Almost two thousand years ago Lucretius proposed a simple and stunning response to these problems: an ethics of motion. Instead of trying to transcend nature with our minds, escape it with our immortal souls, and dominate it with our technologies, Lucretius was perhaps the first in the Western tradition to forcefully argue for a completely materialist and immanent ethics based on moving with and as nature. If we want to survive and live well on this planet, Lucretius taught us, our best chance is not to struggle against nature but to embrace it and facilitate its movement. Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion. Cover image: Primavera, Sandro Botticelli, 1482 Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN: 978-1-4744-6663-9 Barcode
Thomas Nail is Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the award-winning author of eight prestigious University Press books which cover a wide range of topics including migration, borders, technology, digital media, history, science, economics, contemporary politics and climate change. His current research focuses on the influence of mobility on society and the arts in the 21st century. His work has been translated into ten major languages and cited across more than 20 academic disciplines.His published books are Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Oxford University Press, 2020), Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019), Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018), Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012).He also writes for Aeon: Ideas and Culture, The Huffington Post, Quartz, Pacific Standard: The Science of Society, History News Network and Monthly Review.
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Introduction An Ethics of Motion Lucretian Ethics - Against Stasis, Against ataraxia - Against Transcendent Values Method - Historical Ontology - Close Reading - Translation - Argumentation Conclusion Notes Book III 1. A Matter of Desire Against Religion False Footsteps Pedetic Ethics - Materialist Ethics - The Swallow - The Goat - The Bee The Birth of Spring The Ecstasy of the Sensuous Conclusion Notes 2. Kinophobia Death Matters Liquid Desire Practical Ethics The Mask of Materialism Statism and the Wound of Life Primitive Accumulation Of Stasis, Statues, and States Hatred of the Body Pietas: Collective Ethics Transcendental Materialism Conclusion Notes 3. Critique of Kinetic Reason The Material Conditions of Reason Critique of Harmonic Reason - The Discordant Harmony of the Soul Critique of Pure Emotion - Affect Theory Weaving the Soul - Critique of Atomic Reason Conclusion Notes 4. Dark Materialism Folded Matters - The Material Soul - The Folded Soul - The Elemental Soul The Ethical Indeterminacy of Matter - Touching on Nature Ontology and Ethics The Thermodynamics of Emotion Thermodynamic Ethics The Dying Soul Decaying Life The Movement of Death - The Woven Vessel The Scatology of Spirit Migrant Nature Conclusion Notes 5. The Ethics of Motion Death has no Value The Kinetic Theory of Memory Ethical Abstraction Ethics for a Leaky Basket Property is Theft! What is the Ethics of Motion? - Pedetic Ethics: Tantalus and Fors Fortuna - Entropic Ethics: Tityos and Leto - Collective Ethics: Sisyphus and Fasces Conclusion Notes Book IV 6. Ethics of the Simulacrum The Language of Flowers Process Ethics of the Simulacrum Theory of the Simulacrum - Diffraction Drawing Figures - Swerving Figures Material Ecology and Environmental Affect - Weaving String Figures Brevi spatio, temporis in puncto Conclusion Notes 7. All Perceptions are True The Flow of Things Interweaving Sensation Mathesis naturalis The Fault of the Mind Against Scepticism: Against Idealism The Diffractive Harmony of the Senses The Language of the World The Ecokinetic Imagination Conclusion Notes 8. The Material Unconscious Against Utilitarianism Nature's Mind Knowledge and Dreams Libido The Wound of Love The Knots of Love Feminine Desire Maternal Seeds Semele and Dionysus Conclusion Notes Conclusion The New Lucretius The Kinetic Lucretius Motivations and Aspirations Notes Index
Introduction An Ethics of Motion Lucretian Ethics - Against Stasis, Against ataraxia - Against Transcendent Values Method - Historical Ontology - Close Reading - Translation - Argumentation Conclusion Notes Book III 1. A Matter of Desire Against Religion False Footsteps Pedetic Ethics - Materialist Ethics - The Swallow - The Goat - The Bee The Birth of Spring The Ecstasy of the Sensuous Conclusion Notes 2. Kinophobia Death Matters Liquid Desire Practical Ethics The Mask of Materialism Statism and the Wound of Life Primitive Accumulation Of Stasis, Statues, and States Hatred of the Body Pietas: Collective Ethics Transcendental Materialism Conclusion Notes 3. Critique of Kinetic Reason The Material Conditions of Reason Critique of Harmonic Reason - The Discordant Harmony of the Soul Critique of Pure Emotion - Affect Theory Weaving the Soul - Critique of Atomic Reason Conclusion Notes 4. Dark Materialism Folded Matters - The Material Soul - The Folded Soul - The Elemental Soul The Ethical Indeterminacy of Matter - Touching on Nature Ontology and Ethics The Thermodynamics of Emotion Thermodynamic Ethics The Dying Soul Decaying Life The Movement of Death - The Woven Vessel The Scatology of Spirit Migrant Nature Conclusion Notes 5. The Ethics of Motion Death has no Value The Kinetic Theory of Memory Ethical Abstraction Ethics for a Leaky Basket Property is Theft! What is the Ethics of Motion? - Pedetic Ethics: Tantalus and Fors Fortuna - Entropic Ethics: Tityos and Leto - Collective Ethics: Sisyphus and Fasces Conclusion Notes Book IV 6. Ethics of the Simulacrum The Language of Flowers Process Ethics of the Simulacrum Theory of the Simulacrum - Diffraction Drawing Figures - Swerving Figures Material Ecology and Environmental Affect - Weaving String Figures Brevi spatio, temporis in puncto Conclusion Notes 7. All Perceptions are True The Flow of Things Interweaving Sensation Mathesis naturalis The Fault of the Mind Against Scepticism: Against Idealism The Diffractive Harmony of the Senses The Language of the World The Ecokinetic Imagination Conclusion Notes 8. The Material Unconscious Against Utilitarianism Nature's Mind Knowledge and Dreams Libido The Wound of Love The Knots of Love Feminine Desire Maternal Seeds Semele and Dionysus Conclusion Notes Conclusion The New Lucretius The Kinetic Lucretius Motivations and Aspirations Notes Index
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