Dynamic Reading

Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Dynamic Reading is an exciting experiment in perspective. Eleven essays by a range of distinguished scholars come at the Epicurean inheritance from radically different angles, from an ancient Roman who starved himself to death to Mark Rothko, from a 'whore's doctrine of pleasure' to the philosophy of Giles Deleuze. The volume bears witness to the haunting ambiguity of Epicureanism and to its continuing vitality.

<br>Brooke Holmes is Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University<br>W. H. Shearin is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Miami<br>

INTRODUCTION, BROOKE HOLMES AND W. H. SHEARIN; 1. HAUNTING NEPOS: ATTICUS AND THE PERFORMANCE OF ROMAN EPICUREAN DEATH, W. H. SHEARIN; 2. EPICURUS'S MISTRESSES: PLEASURE, AUTHORITY, AND GENDER IN THE RECEPTION OF THE KURIAI DOXAI IN THE SECOND SOPHISTIC, RICHARD FLETCHER; 3. READING FOR PLEASURE: DISASTER AND DIGRESSION IN THE FIRST RENAISSANCE COMMENTARY ON LUCRETIUS, GERARD PASSANNANTE; 4. DISCOURSE EX NIHILO: EPICURUS AND LUCRETIUS IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND, ADAM RZEPKA; 5. ENGENDERING MODERNITY: EPICUREAN WOMEN FROM LUCRETIUS TO ROUSSEAU, NATANIA MEEKER; 6. OSCILLATE AND REFLECT: LA METTRIE, MATERIALIST PHYSIOLOGY, AND THE REVIVAL OF THE EPICUREAN CANONIC, JAMES STEINTRAGER; 7. SENSUAL IDEALISM: THE SPIRIT OF EPICURUS AND THE POLITICS OF FINITUDE IN KANT AND HOLDERLIN, ANTHONY ADLER; 8. THE SUBLIME, TODAY?, GLENN MOST; 9. FROM HERESY TO NATURE: LEO STRAUSS'S HISTORY OF MODERN EPICUREANISM, BENJAMIN ALDES WURGAFT; 10. EPICUREAN PRESENCES IN FOUCAULT'S THE HERMENEUTICS OF THE SUBJECT, ALAIN GIGANDET; 11. DELEUZE, LUCRETIUS, AND THE SIMULACRUM OF NATURALISM, BROOKE HOLMES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX