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Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary
history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics,
political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent
example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the Roman poet's
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) rediscovery by Poggio
Bracciolini, and of its reception in early modernity, winner of
both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Despite the poem's
newfound influence and visibility, very little cross-disciplinary
conversation has taken place. This edited collection brings
together essays by distinguished scholars to examine the
relationship between Lucretius and modernity. Key questions weave
this book's ideas and arguments together: What is the relation
between literary form and philosophical argument? How does the text
of De rerum natura allow itself to be used, at different historical
moments and to different ends? What counts as reason for Lucretius?
Together, these essays present a nuanced, skeptical, passionate,
historically sensitive, and complicated account of what is at stake
when we claim Lucretius for modernity.
Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary
history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics,
political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent
example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the Roman poet's
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) rediscovery by Poggio
Bracciolini, and of its reception in early modernity, winner of
both a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Despite the poem's
newfound influence and visibility, very little cross-disciplinary
conversation has taken place. This edited collection brings
together essays by distinguished scholars to examine the
relationship between Lucretius and modernity. Key questions weave
this book's ideas and arguments together: What is the relation
between literary form and philosophical argument? How does the text
of De rerum natura allow itself to be used, at different historical
moments and to different ends? What counts as reason for Lucretius?
Together, these essays present a nuanced, skeptical, passionate,
historically sensitive, and complicated account of what is at stake
when we claim Lucretius for modernity.
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