The most original and shocking interpretation of Lucretius in the
last 40 yearsThomas 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.Key FeaturesA new
materialist, quantum and feminist interpretation of LucretiusArgues
the original and provocative thesis that Lucretius was not an
atomist but rather the first philosopher of motionThe most profound
revision of how we read Lucretius since Michel Serres' 'The Birth
of Physics' (1977)
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