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Filippo Del Lucchese Monsters in Ancient Philosophy (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- Monsters in Ancient Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Monstrosity and Philosophy : Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture
- Title
- Monsters in Ancient Philosophy
- Subtitle
- Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9781474456203
- ISBN
- 9781474456203
- Publisher
- Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
- Genre
- Philosophy & Spirituality
- Subject
- Ancient History
- Release Year
- 2019
- Release Date
- 31/10/2019
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 6.3in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 8.9in
- Item Weight
- 28.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics to respond to the challenge of radical otherness in nature and in thought.
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Edinburgh Tea & Coffee Company University Press
ISBN-10
1474456200
ISBN-13
9781474456203
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21038614061
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Monstrosity and Philosophy : Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
8.9in
Item Weight
28.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
B111
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Filippo Del Lucchese's study of the history of the concept of monstrosity from its origins in early Greek thought to early Christianity and Neo-Platonism is an enormously valuable work. His book offers a carefully ordered panoramic view of this history based on an always attentive reading of the works of which it is composed. Del Lucchese shows us nothing less than a history of philosophy on the basis of its monsters, those it created as well as those it discovered, the things that regularly escape the government of providence and the supervision of logos or ratio. In doing so, he invites us to read the Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, Stoics and Neoplatonists as responses to what most threatens them: the inassimilable and the irreducibly other. Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture is a work of immense erudition that surprises the reader at every turn with the interpretations it offers and the connections it reveals. It is destined to become a classic., By studying ancient thought through the lens of monstrosity, Filippo Del Lucchese projects a radically new light on a philosophical period we thought we knew. It is not too much to say that Monstrosity and Philosophy offers a whole new history of the long span from mythological materials and ancient tragedy to the birth of Christian thought and does so in a fascinating and scholarly way. Its original perspective will be a milestone in the study of the history of ideas., A real masterpiece for all those who intend to understand the wide range of philosophical approaches to defining the Monstrous, Otherness and Evil in the classical world. The text is well written and clearly organised to allow readers to follow the exposition of the author. Multidisciplinary scholars can benefit from Monstrosity and Philosophy ; literary critics, classicists, philosophers, and scholars in religious studies can appreciate the diversity of the scholarship and the author's superb grasp of the subject matter., Filippo Del Lucchese not only offers a thorough historical inquiry into ancient Greek and Roman teratologies, he explores the fascinating hypothesis that theories of monstrosity are a key topic in the basic philosophical debate about Nature, its mechanisms and its norms. This book should appeal to anyone interested in ancient thought and its relations to modern debates about biological norms.
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2019
Topic
Social, General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Political
Lccn
2019-285989
Dewey Decimal
180
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Philosophy
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