The Seeds of Things

The Seeds of Things
Title The Seeds of Things PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher Fordham Univ Press
Pages 256
Release 2009-08-25
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0823230686

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The title of this book translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. In Lucretius, and in the strain of thought followed in this study, matter is always in motion, always differing from itself and yet always also made of the same stuff. From the pious Lucy Hutchinson’s all but complete translation of the Roman epic poem to Margaret Cavendish’s repudiation of atomism (but not of its fundamental problematic of sameness and difference), a central concern of this book is how a thoroughgoing materialism can be read alongside other strains in the thought of the early modern period, particularly Christianity. A chapter moves from Milton’s monism to his angels and their insistent corporeality. Milton’s angels have sex, and, throughout, this study emphasizes the consequences for thinking about sexuality offered by Lucretian materialism. Sameness of matter is not simply a question of same-sex sex, and the relations of atoms in Cavendish and Hutchinson are replicated in the terms in which they imagine marriages of partners who are also their doubles. Likewise, Spenser’s knights in the 1590 Faerie Queene pursue the virtues of Holiness, Temperance, and Chastity in quests that take the reader on a path of askesis of the kind that Lucretius recommends and that Foucault studied in the final volumes of his history of sexuality. Although English literature is the book’s main concern, it first contemplates relations between Lucretian matter and Pauline flesh by way of Tintoretto’s painting The Conversion of St. Paul. Theoretical issues raised in the work of Agamben and Badiou, among others, lead to a chapter that takes up the role that Lucretius has played in theory, from Bergson and Marx to Foucault and Deleuze. This study should be of concern to students of religion, philosophy, gender, and sexuality, especially as they impinge on questions of representation.

Of the Nature of Things

Of the Nature of Things
Title Of the Nature of Things PDF eBook
Author Titus Lucretius Carus
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Pages 334
Release 1916
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Lucretius on the Nature of Things

Lucretius on the Nature of Things
Title Lucretius on the Nature of Things PDF eBook
Author Titus Lucretius Carus
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Pages 300
Release 1914
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On the Nature of Things

On the Nature of Things
Title On the Nature of Things PDF eBook
Author Titus Lucretius Carus
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Pages 298
Release 1919
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T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex

T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex
Title T. Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex PDF eBook
Author Titus Lucretius Carus
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Pages 198
Release 1898
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The Fifth Discourse Concerning the Spontaneous Generation of Live Things. [An Extract from a Translation of D. Sennert's “Hypomnemata Physica.”]

The Fifth Discourse Concerning the Spontaneous Generation of Live Things. [An Extract from a Translation of D. Sennert's “Hypomnemata Physica.”]
Title The Fifth Discourse Concerning the Spontaneous Generation of Live Things. [An Extract from a Translation of D. Sennert's “Hypomnemata Physica.”] PDF eBook
Author Daniel SENNERTUS
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Pages 64
Release 1660
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De rerum natura

De rerum natura
Title De rerum natura PDF eBook
Author Titus Lucretius Carus
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Pages 196
Release 1891
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