The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition

by Gerard Passannante

With The Lucretian Renaissance , Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving about the void; and the void itself, or nothingness. Passannante considers the fact that this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226648494
• ISBN13: 9780226648491
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"