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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Edinburgh University Press
2019, [2019]©2019
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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
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-393) and indexes
- 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