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This volume explores Nietzsche's decisive encounter with the
ancient philosopher, Epicurus. The collected essays examine many
previously unexplored and underappreciated convergences, and
investigate how essential Epicurus was to Nietzsche's philosophical
project through two interrelated overarching themes: nature and
ethics. Uncovering the nature of Nietzsche's reception of, relation
to, and movement beyond Epicurus, contributors provide insights
into the relationship between suffering, health and philosophy in
both thinkers; Nietzsche's stylistic analysis of Epicurus; the
ethics of self-cultivation in Nietzsche's Epicureanism; practices
of eating and thinking in Nietzsche and Epicurus; the temporality
of Epicurean pleasure; the practice of the gay science, and
Epicureanism and politics. The essays also provide creative
comparisons with the Stoics, Hobbes, Mill, Guyau, Buddhism, and
more. Nietzsche and Epicurus offers original and illuminating
perspectives on Nietzsche's relation to the Hellenistic thinker, in
whom Nietzsche saw the embodiment of the practice of philosophy as
an art of existing.
Deleuze dramatises the story of ancient philosophy as a rivalry of
four types of thinkers: the subverting pre-Socratics, the ascending
Plato, the interiorising Aristotle and the perverting Stoics.
Deleuze assigns the Stoics a privileged place because they
introduced a new orientation for thinking and living that turns the
whole story of philosophy inside out. Ryan Johnson reveals
Deleuze's provocative reading of ancient Stoicism produced many of
his most singular and powerful ideas. For Deleuze, the Stoics were
innovators of an entire system of philosophy which they structured
like an egg. Johnson structures his book in this way: Part I looks
at physics (the yolk), Part II is logic (the shell) and Part III
covers ethics (the albumen). Including previously untranslated
French Stoic scholarship, Johnson unearths new possibilities for
bridging contemporary and ancient philosophy.
Explores how Deleuze's thought was shaped by Lucretian atomism a
formative but often-ignored influence from ancient philosophyMore
than any other 20th-century philosopher, Deleuze considers himself
an apprentice to the history of philosophy. But scholarship has
ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian
atomism. Deleuze's encounter with Lucretius sparked a way of
thinking that resonates throughout all his writings: from immanent
ontology to affirmative ethics, from dynamic materialism to the
generation of thought itself. Filling a significant gap in Deleuze
Studies, Ryan J. Johnson tells the story of the Deleuze-Lucretius
encounter that begins and ends with a powerful claim: Lucretian
atomism produced Deleuzianism.
Deleuze shows that Stoicism is a philosophical operation that turns
the history of thought inside out. Deleuze dramatizes the story of
ancient philosophy as a rivalry of four types of thinkers: the
subverting pre-Socratics, the ascending Plato, the interiorizing
Aristotle and the perverting Stoics. Deleuze assigns the Stoics a
privileged place because they introduced a new orientation for
thinking and living that turns the whole story of philosophy inside
out.Ryan Johnson reveals how Deleuze's provocative reading of
ancient Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful
ideas. For Deleuze, the Stoics were innovators of an entire system
of philosophy which they structured like an egg. Johnson structures
his book in this way: Part I looks at physics (the yolk), Part II
is logic (the shell) and Part III covers ethics (the
albumen).Including previously untranslated French Stoic
scholarship, Johnson unearths new possibilities for bridging
contemporary and ancient philosophy
In this volume of 18 essays, leading philosophers address the
varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and
antique thought. They reconceive and redeploy the problems of
ancient metaphysics: one and the many, the potential and the
actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the world
itself. Alongside these essays are three original and previously
unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre
Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.
Ancient metaphysics and contemporary continental realism have a key
goal in common: to investigate how beings exists outside of the
descriptions placed on them by language, consciousness, texts and
society.This volume addresses the encounters between contemporary
and antique philosophies, from Plato, Aristotle and Lucretius to
Deieuze, Agamben and Badiou. Alongside these essays are three
original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles
Deieuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.
More than any other 20th-century philosopher, Deleuze considers
himself an apprentice to the history of philosophy. But scholarship
has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze:
Lucretian atomism. Deleuze's encounter with Lucretius sparked a way
of thinking that resonates throughout all his writings: from
immanent ontology to affirmative ethics, from dynamic materialism
to the generation of thought itself. Filling a significant gap in
Deleuze Studies, Ryan J. Johnson tells the story of the
Deleuze-Lucretius encounter that begins and ends with a powerful
claim: Lucretian atomism produced Deleuzianism.
This volume explores Nietzsche's decisive encounter with the
ancient philosopher, Epicurus. The collected essays examine many
previously unexplored and underappreciated convergences, and
investigate how essential Epicurus was to Nietzsche's philosophical
project through two interrelated overarching themes: nature and
ethics. Uncovering the nature of Nietzsche's reception of, relation
to, and movement beyond Epicurus, contributors provide insights
into the relationship between suffering, health and philosophy in
both thinkers; Nietzsche's stylistic analysis of Epicurus; the
ethics of self-cultivation in Nietzsche's Epicureanism; practices
of eating and thinking in Nietzsche and Epicurus; the temporality
of Epicurean pleasure; the practice of the gay science, and
Epicureanism and politics. The essays also provide creative
comparisons with the Stoics, Hobbes, Mill, Guyau, Buddhism, and
more. Nietzsche and Epicurus offers original and illuminating
perspectives on Nietzsche's relation to the Hellenistic thinker, in
whom Nietzsche saw the embodiment of the practice of philosophy as
an art of existing.
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