The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought

AvChristopher Gill

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of Stoic and Epicurean ideas is illustrated by a more detailed examination of the Stoic theory of the passions and a new account of the history of this theory. His study also tackles issues about the historical study of selfhood and the relationship between philosophy and literature, especially the presentation of the collapse of character in Plutarch's Lives, Senecan tragedy, and Virgil's Aeneid. As all Greek and Latin is translated, this book presents original ideas about ancient concepts of personality to a wide range of readers.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-04-06
Mått:163 x 242 x 35 mm
Vikt:950 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:544
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198152682
Utmärkelser:*Choice* Outstanding Academic Book 2007

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Christopher Gill is Professor of Ancient Thought, University of Exeter.

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It is difficult to do justice to a book of this scope and richness within the compass of a single review, but there can be no doubt that it will become an indispensable point of reference for researchers working on ancient conceptions of man

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; I. THE STRUCTURED SELF IN STOICISM AND EPICUREANISM ; 1. Psychophysical Holism in Stoicism and Epicureanism ; 2. Psychological Holism and Socratic Ideals ; 3. Development and the Structured Self ; II. THE UNSTRUCTURED SELF: STOIC PASSIONS AND THE RECEPTION OF PLATO ; 4. Competing Readings of Stoic Passions ; 5. Competing Readings of Platonic Psychology ; III. THEORETICAL ISSUES AND LITERARY RECEPTION ; 6. Issues in Selfhood: Subjectivity and Objectivity ; 7. Literary Reception: Structured and Unstructured Selves