The concept of monstrosity in ancient philosophy and culture Taking a continental approach to Greek and Latin culture, both pagan and early Christian, Filippo Del Lucchese covers all the major figures in ancient thought, from Hesiod to Augustine, through Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and Lucretius, the Stoics and the Sceptics, up to the Middle Platonists, the Neoplatonists and the early Fathers. Far from being a peripheral problem, Del Lucchese shows that monstrosity is one of the main conceptual challenges for every philosophical system. He reveals how ancient philosophers explore…mehr
The concept of monstrosity in ancient philosophy and culture Taking a continental approach to Greek and Latin culture, both pagan and early Christian, Filippo Del Lucchese covers all the major figures in ancient thought, from Hesiod to Augustine, through Democritus, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus and Lucretius, the Stoics and the Sceptics, up to the Middle Platonists, the Neoplatonists and the early Fathers. Far from being a peripheral problem, Del Lucchese shows that monstrosity is one of the main conceptual challenges for every philosophical system. He reveals how ancient philosophers explore metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics as they respond to the threats presented by the radical alterity of monstrous manifestations, both in nature and in thought. Filippo Del Lucchese is Senior Lecturer in History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg.
Filippo Del Lucchese is Senior Lecturer in History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London; Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, and Chair at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza (Continuum Press, 2009).
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Introduction 1. The Myth and the Logos 1.1 Order and Chaos 1.2 Mythical Battlefields: Monstrosity as a Weapon 1.3 Causality and Monstrosity: Challenging Zeus 2. The Pre-Platonic philosophers 2.1 Anaxagoras: A Material Origin for Life and Monstrosity 2.2 Empedocles: Wonders to Behold 2.3 Democritus: Agonism within Matter 3. Plato 4. Aristotle 5. Epicurus and Lucretius 5.1 An Immanent Causality for an Infinite Universe 5.2 Zoogony, Monstrosity, and Nature's Normativity 5.3 Concourses of Nature 5.4 Lucretius's Impact on the Augustan Age 6. Stoicism 6.1 Nominalism 6.2 Good and Evil, Beauty and Ugliness 6.3 Providence, God and Teleology 7. Scepticism 7.1 The Tropes and the Critique of Essentialism 7.2 To What Purpose? 8. Middle and Neoplatonism 8.1 The Material World and the Rediscovery of Transcendence 8.2 Demons 8.3 The World Order Bibliography Index Locorum Index Verborum Index Rerum Index Nominum
Introduction 1. The Myth and the Logos 1.1 Order and Chaos 1.2 Mythical Battlefields: Monstrosity as a Weapon 1.3 Causality and Monstrosity: Challenging Zeus 2. The Pre-Platonic philosophers 2.1 Anaxagoras: A Material Origin for Life and Monstrosity 2.2 Empedocles: Wonders to Behold 2.3 Democritus: Agonism within Matter 3. Plato 4. Aristotle 5. Epicurus and Lucretius 5.1 An Immanent Causality for an Infinite Universe 5.2 Zoogony, Monstrosity, and Nature's Normativity 5.3 Concourses of Nature 5.4 Lucretius's Impact on the Augustan Age 6. Stoicism 6.1 Nominalism 6.2 Good and Evil, Beauty and Ugliness 6.3 Providence, God and Teleology 7. Scepticism 7.1 The Tropes and the Critique of Essentialism 7.2 To What Purpose? 8. Middle and Neoplatonism 8.1 The Material World and the Rediscovery of Transcendence 8.2 Demons 8.3 The World Order Bibliography Index Locorum Index Verborum Index Rerum Index Nominum
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