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Availability:In StockContributor:Thomas NailPublish date:2020-03-12Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474466646ISBN-10:1474466648UPC:9781474466646Book Category:Philosophy, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ancient and Classical, History & SurveysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCVCD3WF7F
Human suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: almost 2,000 ago Lucretius proposed an ethics of motion as simple and stunning solution to these ethical problems. Thomas Nail argues that Lucretius was the first to locate the core of all these ethical ills in our obsession with stasis, our fear of movement and our hatred of matter. Instead of trying to transcend nature with our minds, escape it with our immortal souls and dominate it with our technologies, Lucretius was perhaps the first in the Western tradition to forcefully argue for a completely materialist, immanent and naturalistic ethics based on moving well with and as nature. If we want to survive and live well on this planet, Lucretius taught us, our best chance is not to struggle against nature but to embrace it and facilitate its movement.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474466646ISBN-10:1474466648UPC:9781474466646Book Category:Philosophy, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ancient and Classical, History & SurveysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.6305Product ID:SCVCD3WF7F

Thomas Nail is Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the award-winning author of eight prestigious University Press books which cover a wide range of topics including migration, borders, technology, digital media, history, science, economics, contemporary politics and climate change. His current research focuses on the influence of mobility on society and the arts in the 21st century. His work has been translated into ten major languages and cited across more than 20 academic disciplines. His published books are Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism (Oxford University Press, 2020), Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), Theory of the Image (Oxford University Press, 2019), Being and Motion (Oxford University Press, 2018), Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Theory of the Border (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). He also writes for Aeon: Ideas and Culture, The Huffington Post, Quartz, Pacific Standard: The Science of Society, History News Network and Monthly Review.


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