Monstrosity and philosophy : radical otherness in Greek and Latin culture

Monstrosity and philosophy : radical otherness in Greek and Latin culture /

"Amazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in ancient culture. They raise enduring philosophical questions: about chaos and order; about divinity and perversion; about meaning and purpose; about the hierarchy of nature or its absence. Del Lucchese grapples...

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Author / Contributor: Del Lucchese, Filippo, 1969- (Author)
Imprint: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Other (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Ancient.
Monsters > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Myth and the Logos
  • Order and Chaos
  • Mythical Battlefi elds: Monstrosity as a Weapon
  • Causality and Monstrosity: Challenging Zeus
  • 2 The Pre-Platonic Philosophers
  • Anaxagoras: A Material Origin for Life and Monstrosity
  • Empedocles: Wonders to Behold
  • Democritus: Agonism within Matter
  • 3 Plato
  • 4 Aristotle
  • 5 Epicurus and Lucretius
  • An Immanent Causality for an Infinite Universe
  • Zoogony, Monstrosity and Nature's Normativity
  • Concourses of Nature
  • Lucretius's Impact on the Augustan Age
  • 6 Stoicism
  • Nominalism
  • Good and Evil, Beauty and Ugliness
  • Providence, God and Teleology
  • 7 Scepticism
  • The Tropes and the Critique of Essentialism
  • To What Purpose?
  • 8 Middle and Neoplatonism
  • The Material World and the Rediscovery of Transcendence
  • Demons
  • The World Order
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Index Verborum
  • Index Rerum
  • Index Nominum

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