- Additional Authors
- Mitsis, Phillip.
- Description
- 1 online resource (688 pages).
- Summary
- The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (340-271 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the soul, has at the same time been an ongoing source of inspiration for a great variety of subsequent philosophers, poets, and political thinkers. This volume offers authoritative discussions of all aspects of Epicurus's philosophy and then traces out some of its most important later influences throughout the Western intellectual tradition. Epicurean arguments are carefully placed in their ancient and subsequent intellectual contexts, thus offering readers the opportunity of measuring them against a wide range of opponents - from Platonists, Aristotelians, and Stoics, to Hegel and Nietzsche, and finally on to such influential contemporary philosophers as Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams, and Jacques Derrida.
- Series Statement
- Oxford handbooks online
- Uniform Title
- Oxford handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism (Online)
- Oxford handbooks online.
- Alternative Title
- Epicurus and Epicureanism
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Audience (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2020).
- Contents
- Epicurus and the Epicurean School / Tiziano Dorandi -- Politics and Society / Geert Roskam -- Plutarch / Michael Erler -- Lucretius / Monica R. Gale -- Philodemus and the Herculaneum Papyri / Mario Capasso -- Diogenes of Oenoanda / Pamela Gordon -- Friendship / Phillip Mitsis -- Poetics / Michael McOsker -- Rhetoric / Clive Chandler -- Horace and Virgil / Gregson Davis -- Seneca and Epicurus / Margaret Graver -- Atomism / David Konstan -- Postmodernism / Eva Marie Noller, W. H. Shearin -- Epicurus and Epicureanism in Rabbinic Literature, Maimonides, and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov / Gabriel Danzig -- Early Christianity / Ilaria Ramelli -- Materialism and Early Modern "Natural History of Man" / Ann Thomson -- Early Modern Epicureanism: Gassendi and Hobbes in Dialogue on Psychology, Ethics, and Politics / Gianni Paganini -- Thomas Jefferson / Carl J. Richard -- Epicureanism and Utilitarianism / A. A. Long -- Epicurus in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche / James I. Porter -- Epistemology / Gisela Striker -- Hedonism / Voula Tsouna -- Epicurus in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century French Thought: A "Freedom of Pleasures"? / Thomas M. Kavanagh -- Theology / Emidio Spinelli, Francesco Verde -- Humanist Dissemination of Epicureanism / Ada Palmer -- Language / Enrico Piergiacomi -- Cicero / Carlos Lévy -- Psychology / Elizabeth Asmis -- Voluntary Action and Responsibility / Walter Englert -- Cosmology and Meteorology / Daryn Lehoux -- Death / Stephen E. Rosenbaum.
- OCLC
- ssj0002708967
- Title
Oxford handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism [electronic resource] / edited by Phillip Mitsis.
- Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Series
Oxford handbooks online
Oxford handbooks online.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Audience
Specialized.
- Note
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2020).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Mitsis, Phillip.
- Other Form:
Print version : 9780199744213